whirl around

1. 1.

   fly around

   “The clothes tumbled in the dryer”

   “rising smoke whirled in the air”

   Synonymswhirltumble

   Broadermove

Questions about whirl around

What does whirl around mean?

whirl around means "fly around".

What is another word for whirl around?

Close synonyms include whirl, tumble. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is whirl around a common word?

whirl around is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.