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Synonym of Twirling baton

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Twirling bâton

Le twirling bâton – ou tournoiement de bâton – est une discipline sportive reconnue par le CNOSF au niveau français. C'est une combinaison de gymnastique et de danse avec maniement du bâton. Cette expression franglaise vient du verbe anglais twirl qui veut dire : faire tournoyer ou faire des moulinets avec une canne ou un autre objet.

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twirling baton

twirling baton
the overstrike sequence -/|\-/|\- which produces an animated twirling baton. if you output it with a single backspace between characters, the baton spins in place. if you output the sequence bs sp between characters, the baton spins from left to right. if you output bs sp bs bs between characters, the batton spins from right to left.

French-Chinese

twirling baton
twirling bâton
音標：[twirliHbatC~]
loc.m. [運動]旋轉球

twirling bâton
音標：[twirliHbatC~]
loc.m. [運動]旋轉球

French-Chinese GBK

twirling baton
twirling bâton
音标：[twirliHbatC~]
loc.m. [运动]旋转球

twirling bâton
音标：[twirliHbatC~]
loc.m. [运动]旋转球

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twirling baton
<graphics> The overstrike sequence -/|\-/|\- which produces an animated twirling baton. If you output it with a single backspace between characters, the baton spins in place. If you output the sequence BS SP between characters, the baton spins from left to right. If you output BS SP BS BS between characters, the batton spins from right to left.
The twirling baton was a popular component of animated signature files on the pioneering PLATO educational time-sharing system. The "archie" Internet service is perhaps the best-known baton program today; it uses the twirling baton as an idler indicating that the program is working on a query.
[Jargon File]
(1995-02-23)

Jargon File

twirling baton
n. [PLATO] The overstrike sequence -/|\-/|\- which produces an animated twirling baton. If you output it with a single backspace between characters, the baton spins in place. If you output the sequence BS SP between characters, the baton spins from left to right. If you output BS SP BS BS between characters, the baton spins from right to left. This is also occasionally called a twiddle prompt.

The twirling baton was a popular component of animated signature files on the pioneering PLATO educational timesharing system. The archie Internet service is perhaps the best-known baton program today; it uses the twirling baton as an idler indicating that the program is working on a query. The twirling baton is also used as a boot progress indicator on several BSD variants of Unix; if it stops you're probably going to have a long and trying day.

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