Rolling

Rolling

Rolling is a type of motion that combines rotation (commonly, of an axially symmetric object) and translation of that object with respect to a surface (either one or the other moves), such that, if ideal conditions exist, the two are in contact with each other without sliding.

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Famous quotes containing the word rolling:

    “The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a game, a wheel rolling on its own, a prime movement, a sacred Yes.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    “Before the Roman came to Rye or out to Severn strode,
    The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road.”
    —Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)

    “They mean to tell us all was rolling blind
    Till accidentally it hit on mind”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)