swiveling

Verb

swivel (third-person singular simple present swivels, present participle (US) swiveling or (UK) swivelling, simple past and past participle (US) swiveled or (UK) swivelled)

1. (intransitive) To swing or turn, as on a pin or pivot.
   • As expected, Swansea began the game with some patient passing and the first chance fell to striker Michu in the fourth minute when he controlled a cross by Jonjo Shelvey and swivelled in the penalty box, only to fire over the bar.2013 November 3, Delme Parfitt, “Cardiff City 1 - 0 Swansea City: Steven Caulker heads Bluebirds to South Wales derby win”, in Wales Online

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Noun

swivelling (plural swivellings)

1. The motion of something that swivels.
   • Around us, groups of girls with short summer dresses hoicked up to tan their milky white thighs sat on thin jackets and aerated the grass with coy swivellings of their spiky heels.2013, Paul Bennett, False Profits