Figure-eight

Full definition of figure-eight

Noun

• 2007 , William D. Bandy, ‎Barbara Sanders , Therapeutic Exercise for Physical Therapist Assistants , For example, the figure-eight would now be performed on only half of a basketball court (Fig. 15-1).
• 2009 , Kevin Lane , Fail-Safe for Fallacy , One cloudy day the instructors set me up to ride through a very, very tight figure-eight.
• 2012 , William Steinkraus , Reflections on Riding and Jumping: Winning Techniques for Serious Riders, The figure-eight is really no more than two circles in different directions.

Verb

1. To move or cause to move in a figure eight pattern.
• 1940, Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, Penguin 2010, p. 61:For two minutes we figure-eighted back and forth across the face of the mountain and then popped out right beside the sidewalk café.
• 1974, Harold Black , Manual of Horsemanship, 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.
• 1980 , Naval Education and Training Program Development Center , Seaman, 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.
• 2002, Prudence Mackintosh , Retreads, Back and forth across the dim street he gracefully figure-eighted, using only his narrow hips and occasionally one hand to direct the bicycle.