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:

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

    I caught this morning morning’s minion, king-
    dom of daylight’s dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon, in his riding
    Of the rolling level underneath him steady air, and striding
    High there, how he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing
    In his ecstasy!
    Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)

    This whole moment is the groin
    Of a borborygmic giant who even now
    Is rolling over on us in his sleep.
    John Ashbery (b. 1927)