coiling

(verb) to wind or move in a spiral course. Synonyms: gyrate, spiral, coil. Examples: "The muscles and nerves of his fine drawn body were coiling for action." "Black smoke coiling up into the sky." "The young people gyrated on the dance floor."

(verb) make without a potter's wheel. Synonyms: handbuild, hand-build, coil. Example: "This famous potter hand-builds all of her vessels."

(verb) wind around something in coils or loops. Synonyms: coil, loop, curl.

(adj) in the shape of a coil. Synonyms: helical, spiral, spiraling, volute, voluted, whorled, turbinate.