circling
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]circling
- present participle and gerund of circle
Noun
[edit]circling (countable and uncountable, plural circlings)
- A circular motion.
- 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
- […] one of these birds came wheeling and screaming round his head in a maze of untrackably swift circlings.
- (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.
- 1996, Bonnie J. Leadbeater, Niobe Way, Urban Girls: Resisting Stereotypes, Creating Identities, page 129:
- The mentoring curriculum included feminist strategies designed to facilitate egalitarian relationships in the groups, including circling, where each person takes a turn to speak while others in the group listen in situations involving decision making or conflict, […]
- (University of Warwick slang) A class of secretive drinking games, each with an unknown set of rules which new players must learn by immersion, taking place with participants sitting in a circle and drinking upon certain conditions being met.