Answer to "Rotates" crossword clue

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word SPINS , but the solution may also be WHIRLS which is one of the most recent solution (2016 in USA Today).

Rotates crossword clue answers

Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.

Answer	Likelyness	Letters
SPINS	59 %	5
TURNS	23 %	5
WHIRLS	14 %	6
WHEELS	5 %	6

Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Rotates

These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.

• go around
• revolve
• alternates
• burps
• evolves
• flips
• focuses
• goes
• hinges
• occiput
• overturns
• pelvis

Crossword Answer definitions

SPINS noun

1. Rapid circular motion.
2. A quantum angular momentum associated with subatomic particles, which also creates a magnetic moment.
3. A favourable comment or interpretation intended to bias opinion on an otherwise unpleasant situation.
4. Rotation of the ball as it flies through the air; sideways movement of the ball as it bounces.
5. A condition of flight where a stalled aircraft is simultaneously pitching, yawing and rolling in a spinning motion.
6. A brief trip by vehicle, especially one made for pleasure.
7. A bundle of spun material; a mass of strands and filaments.
8. A single play of a record by a radio station.
9. A search of a prisoner's cell for forbidden articles.
10. Unmarried woman, spinster.
11. The use of an exercise bicycle, especially as part of a gym class.

SPINS verb

1. To rotate, revolve, gyrate (usually quickly); to partially or completely rotate to face another direction.
2. To make yarn by twisting and winding fibers together.
3. To present, describe, or interpret, or to introduce a bias or slant, so as to give something a favorable or advantageous appearance.
4. (of a bowler) To make the ball move sideways when it bounces on the pitch.
5. (of a ball) To move sideways when bouncing.
6. To form into thin strips or ribbons, as with sugar
7. To form (a web, a cocoon, silk, etc.) from threads produced by the extrusion of a viscid, transparent liquid, which hardens on coming into contact with the air; said of the spider, the silkworm, etc.
8. To shape, as malleable sheet metal, into a hollow form, by bending or buckling it by pressing against it with a smooth hand tool or roller while the metal revolves, as in a lathe.
9. To move swiftly.
10. To stream or issue in a thread or a small current or jet.
11. To wait in a loop until some condition becomes true.
12. To play (vinyl records, etc.) as a disc jockey.
13. To use an exercise bicycle, especially as part of a gym class.
14. An abnormal condition in journal bearings where the bearing seizes to the shaft that is rotating and rotates inside the journal, destroying both the shaft and the journal.

More crossword clues leading to the same solutions

Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution

More clues leading to the result SPINS

• Jaunts
• Draws out
• Makes thread or yarn
• Uses English?
• Makes yarn
• Short drives
• Public relations interpretations
• Joy rides
• Turns the wheel
• Gyrates

More clues leading to the result TURNS

• Dance maneuvers
• Goes sour
• Rolls over
• Sorry! attempts?
• Rotates
• Zig and zag
• Chances to play
• Revolutions
• They're taken in checkers
• Changes color

More clues leading to the result WHIRLS

• Gyrates
• Goes around
• Rotates
• Pirouettes.
• Gyrates.
• Reels
• Spins
• Makes like a dervish
• Rapid rounds of events
• Takes turns

More clues leading to the result WHEELS

• Car, synecdochically
• Steering devices
• Alternative to hoofing it
• They may be for training
• Car, so to speak
• Wagon rollers
• Suits
• One's 40 Across, so to speak
• Rotates
• Auto, so to speak