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figure eights

n. (figure eight English)

Usage examples of "figure eights".

Scanlon and Harding, they got the buffer going up and down the hall, polishing the new wax into shining figure eights.

The motorcycles, most of them with two riders, made crazy circles or figure eights around and through the caravan.

Jeff stuck around, cutting figure eights above us, but we ignored him.

The kids chase each other and skate backward and do figure eights.

She blinked at the glare, scratched her pert button nose and toed figure eights on the floor.

When he estimated about fifty feet had run through, he put on more figure eights around the cleat, then dropped half hitches over to secure the line.

And he takes me up and we go a little way out of town and we do figure eights over the cornfields and we fly down low and we chase some steers across a pasture and we swoop up and ruffle the tops of some water oaks and we go and do a lazy ring-around at the grain elevator, and he's saying, Look at this, look at that, look what there is to see, Loretta.