figure-eight

plural figure-eights

1. alternativeAlternative form of figure eight.

   The figure-eight is really no more than two circles in different directions.

   2012, William Steinkraus, Reflections on Riding and Jumping: Winning Techniques for Serious Riders, →ISBN

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   For example, the figure-eight would now be performed on only half of a basketball court (Fig. 15-1).

   2007, William D. Bandy, Barbara Sanders, Therapeutic Exercise for Physical Therapist Assistants, →ISBN, page 366

   One cloudy day the instructors set me up to ride through a very, very tight figure-eight.

   2009, Kevin Lane, Fail-Safe for Fallacy, →ISBN, page 19

present singular third person figure-eights · participle present figure-eighting · participle past figure-eighted · past figure-eighted

1. To move or cause to move in a figure eight pattern.

   When he has been circled or figure-eighted enough times, he will become convinced that he is not to be asked to take the fence.

   1974, Harold Black, Manual of Horsemanship

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   For two minutes we figure-eighted back and forth across the face of the mountain and then popped out right beside the sidewalk café.

   1940, Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, Penguin, published 2010, page 61

   To prevent the hook from tumbling and coming out of the hoisting eye, a short lanyard on the pea of the counterbalance is figure-eighted around the shank and tip.

   1980, Naval Education and Training Program Development Center, Seaman, page 87

   Back and forth across the dim street he gracefully figure-eighted, using only his narrow hips and occasionally one hand to direct the bicycle.

   2002, Prudence Mackintosh, Retreads, →ISBN, page 59