Crossword clues for twizzle
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"to twist, form by twisting" (transitive), 1788, apparently a made-up word suggested by twist. Related: Twizzled; twizzling.
Wiktionary
n. A turning, twisting or spinning motion. vb. To rotate, spin or twirl.
Wikipedia
A twizzle is a multirotational one-foot turn in figure skating. The twizzle is most commonly seen in ice dancing, where it appears in a number of Pattern Dances (originally called Compulsory Dance) and is a required element of step sequences in the short dance, original dance and free dance. A twizzle is also common in synchronized skating where it is also a required element of step sequences.
A twizzle differs from a figure skating spin in that it travels across the ice instead of being centered in one spot. Skaters can turn several revolutions on a twizzle, the number of which depends on the level at which they are skating or what is set in the specified steps of a Pattern Dance; as defined by the ISU Technical Committee of the relevant discipline.
Twizzles can be performed both forward and backward, on both inside and outside edges, and both clockwise and counterclockwise. Twizzles are most commonly performed in an upright position with the free foot held close to the skating leg, but other variants are possible as well, such as a twizzle in a sit spin position.
Speed, ice coverage i.e. distance, unison (couples), closeness (couples), variety and difficulty of positions, change of rotational direction (counter-clockwise, clockwise), and difficult entries are taken into consideration by the judges and technical specialists.
Usage examples of "twizzle".
For some reason her moving toward Twizzle gave him a shiver and he reached him first, snatching the small creature into his arms and cradling him.
Osterbridge cursed and began to run as Twizzle bolted down the street.
The tow-headed youth put Twizzle on his leather-shouldered jerkin, and rode out.
Some of the captives were able to lead them to places that Twizzle and his people had not yet discovered.
And the substantive twizzler, with its endless twizzle, is the candy of choice.
Look at it as they might, wrap and unwrap, twist, twizzle and ponder, it remained as it had begun, an irreducible, if complex, entity.
Pemulis behind him making a show of putting a maraschino on top of the small twizzle of Redi-Whip that O.
The two hundred and fifty beams shifted, re-formed, straddled and split, narrowed, widened, rippled in ribbons, broke into a thousand white-hot parallel lines, melted and revolved in interwoven rings like old-fashioned engine-turning, flung up to the zenith, made as if to descend and renew the torment, halted at the last instant, twizzled insanely round the horizon, and vanished, to bring back for the hundredth time darkness more shattering than their instantly renewed light over all Illinois.
Daria yanked the barely inked document out of the machine and hurriedly twizzled her finger down the page, looking for who authorized the payment.
Captain Purnall presses a switch and our signal beam begins to swing through the night, twizzling spokes of light across infinity.
Sam looked down to find her fingers instinctively twizzling the silver oval up and down.
The paint is an intense blue, that blue my mother loves, and in its twizzling energy it is like an obscure but brilliant form of writing.
Through the glass, Wei watched me, fingers twizzling her braided hairband.
Sam looked down to find her fingers instinctively twizzling the silver oval up and down.
Then she twizzled half-round, caught his left wrist and threw him over her shoulder onto the Engine Room floor.