Usually means: Repetitively moving around a central point.
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We found 19 dictionaries that define the word circling:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. circling: Merriam-Webster
  2. circling: Collins English Dictionary
  3. circling: Vocabulary.com
  4. Circling, circling: Wordnik
  5. circling: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. circling: Wiktionary
  7. Circling, circling: Dictionary.com
  8. circling: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Circling: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Circling: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. circling: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. circling: FreeDictionary.org
  13. circling: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. circling: Legal dictionary
  2. circling: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. circling: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. circling: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. circling: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. circling: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (circling)

▸ noun:  A circular motion.
▸ noun:  (uncountable) The practice of sitting in a circle and taking turns to speak about one's emotions or experiences while the others listen, intended to be therapeutic or to strengthen relations within the group.

Similar:
moving, circular arc, ring, round, gyre, circumrotation, circumgyration, gyration, cycle, circular angle, more...

Opposite:
straight, rectilinear, linear, direct, perpendicular, orthogonal, right-angled, right-hand

Phrases:
circling the wagons, circling the waggons, circling disease, circling the drain, Boris Yeltsin circling over Shannon diplomatic incident, more...

Adjectives:
slow, endless, red, low, constant, contralateral, continuous, induced, hateful, much, eternal

Colors:
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Similar:
moving, circular arc, ring, round, gyre, circumrotation, circumgyration, gyration, cycle, circular angle, more...

Opposite:
straight, rectilinear, linear, direct, perpendicular, orthogonal, right-angled, right-hand

Phrases:
circling the wagons, circling the waggons, circling disease, circling the drain, Boris Yeltsin circling over Shannon diplomatic incident, circling back, circling around, circling around a destination, more...

Adjectives:
slow, endless, red, low, constant, contralateral, continuous, induced, hateful, much, eternal

Colors:
    silver,     gray,     blue,     white,     black, more...



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