spin (sb) around
UK also spin (sb) round— phrasal verb with spin uk/spɪn/us/spɪn/verb present participle spinning, past tense spun, past participle UK also span
C2 to quickly turn your own or someone else's body to face the opposite direction:
She spun around to see what had happened.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Revolving, rotating and spinning
- centrifugal
- centripetal
- Foucault pendulum
- go round
- gyrate
- in rotation idiom
- rev
- rotate
- rotation
- round and round idiom
- rpm
- sidespin
- span
- spin
- swing
- swing (sth/sb) around
- tailspin
- twiddle
- wheel
- wheel round
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