Pinwheel
Pinwheel verb - To move in circles around an axis or center.
Usage example: the kayaker had got sucked into the whirlpool, and his kayak was pinwheeling helplessly
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Synonyms for Pinwheel
Wind
Wind verb - To follow a circular or spiral course.
Both words in one sentence
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The end of Chocolate sees Zen and her father walking along the ocean with a row of wind turbines at their side as she holds her own little pinwheel.
Source: Wind Turbine Power -
A Pinwheel Without Wind (starring Zhou Xun) is set in the short lull between the end of the Second Sino-Japanese War and the resumption of the civil war in the late 1940s.
Source: Useful Notes / No More Emperors
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