Bend over or curl up, usually with laughter or pain

Usage examples of doubling.

Message in hand, Alec galloped half a mile down the road before doubling back through the trees to where Seregil and Micurn were waiting.

The dogs were with herNorton bounding ahead and doubling back again, Bummer chasing the waves at her feet.

Doubling to and fro among forests and swamps, he insisted, was the only possible path of access to the undiscovered Coquina hills of Florida.

By then CK has Doby against the far wall and he measures him with a hard left, kidney punch, doubling him over.

TV chasing Frisbees, the collie leaped up, often doubling back on himself in midair, landing flyless and barking his frustration at them.

Then Andrea saw the geese paddling toward her, doubling up their necks every few seconds.

She was coming unravelled in front of him, the slow burn of her shock overriding common sense to such an extent that she patted a bulging pocket and tossed her map into a bin, doubling back barely fifty paces before hanging a left into a blind alley so narrow it was more of a gap between the Suq el Meghreb and a neighbouring warehouse.

Insect threat, as blue-grey silhouettes moved across the room, doubling when bright Tiercel, the morning star, rose.

Whether, now that our children are growing up, and our income is doubling and trebling year by year, we ought to widen our circle of usefulness, or close it up permanently within the quiet bound of little Longfield.

While we waited for the finding and unharbouring of the hart, while I held myself in readiness for the chase and listened for the baying of the scent, while we followed the ruses and doublings of the quarry as he ran back on his own tracks to strengthen the scent then bounded sideways to confuse the hounds or entered and left the streamlets that run through the woods so as to break his traces, while I galloped with the others and followed the sound of the horn and shouted with all the power of my lungs and ducked the low branches, amidst all this hullabaloo and headlong career, I still drifted on the dark lake, still heard the words of love and promise she had given me, still felt the ring where it lay threaded against my breastbone.

In the movie, an especially hypocritical and corrupt police inspector accomplishes this by doubling as a pimp and a landlord for a eunuch-transvestite brothel on Falkland Road.

The growth was geometrical: two, four, eight, sixteen, a doubling every time, rapidly exponentiating away to large numbers, astronomical numbers.

I took all the gold I found, and playing the martingale, and doubling my stakes continuously, I won every day during the remainder of the carnival.

He did not notice Reynolds doubling and tripling his efforts, clawing, thrashing, slashing and pounding at Saul like some maddened, overwound clockwork toy.

After a number of doublings, the prokaryote is programmed to self-destruct.