wheeling

• Rhymes: -iːlɪŋ

wheeling

1. present participle and gerund of wheel

wheeling (plural wheelings)

1. The motion of something that wheels.

   the wheelings of birds in the sky

   • 1910, Rudyard Kipling, Rewards and Fairies:

     Still talking—more to herself than to the children—she swam into a majestical dance of the stateliest balancings, the haughtiest wheelings and turnings aside, the most dignified sinkings, the gravest risings, all joined together by the elaboratest interlacing steps and circles.

2. The act of moving or conveying on wheels.

Pseudo-anglicism, from English wheel +‎ -ing.

• IPA^(key): /wi.liŋ/

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wheeling m (plural wheelings)

1. wheelie (an action or stunt where a bicycle, motorcycle, or other vehicle is ridden for a short period while it is standing only on its rear wheel or wheels)

   Synonym: roue arrière

• “wheeling”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.