whirl

To rotate, revolve, spin or turn rapidly.intransitive

• The dancer whirled across the stage, stopped, and whirled around to face the audience.

To have a sensation of spinning or reeling.intransitive

• My head is whirling after all that drink.

To make something or someone whirl.transitive

• The dancer whirled his partner round on her toes.

To remove or carry quickly with, or as with, a revolving motion; to snatch.transitive

• See, see the chariot, and those rushing wheels, / That whirled the prophet up at Chebar flood.
• To-night the winds begin to rise ⁠And roar from yonder dropping day: ⁠The last red leaf is whirl’d away, The rooks are blown about the skies; […]

An act of whirling.

• She gave the top a whirl and it spun across the floor.

Something that whirls, such as a whirlwind.

A confused tumult.

A rapid series of events.

• My life is one social whirl.

Dizziness or giddiness.

• My mind was in a whirl.

A brief experiment or trial.idiomaticinformal

• OK, let's give it a whirl.