spiral

Adjective

• in the shape of a coil

Noun

• flying downward in a helical path with a large radius

• a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops
  • a coil of rope
    

• ornament consisting of a curve on a plane that winds around a center with an increasing distance from the center

• a continuously accelerating change in the economy

• a curve that lies on the surface of a cylinder or cone and cuts the element at a constant angle

• a plane curve traced by a point circling about the center but at increasing distances from the center

Verb

• move in a spiral or zigzag course

• form a spiral
  • The path spirals up the mountain
    

• to wind or move in a spiral course
  • the muscles and nerves of his fine drawn body were coiling for action
    
  • black smoke coiling up into the sky
    
  • the young people gyrated on the dance floor
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  coiling , helical , spiraling , volute , voluted , whorled , turbinate , coil , whorl , helix , corkscrew , gyrate