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• v  to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling)
• s  moving in a twisting or snake-like or wormlike fashion

• The highest-rated show on the Discovery Channel, Deadliest Catch, follows crews of Alaskan crab fishermen fighting storms, monster waves and other boats to haul wriggling paydays .
• The leading theory postulates that reality arises from infinitesimal "strings" wriggling in a hyperspace of 10 (or more) dimensions.
• It's small, it's cute and it sashays across your desk, tail wriggling.

• writhe
• wrestle
• wriggle
• worm
• squirm
• twist
• wiggly
• wriggly
• writhing

News & Articles

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• Tent caterpillars have returned
  They seem to be everywhere – appearing in wriggling masses from out of the blue. And when spied, islanders want to know one thing – how they can these tent caterpillars be destroyed.
  June 10, 2013 - Islands' Sounder

Quotes

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• Charles Schumer in Melbourne Herald Sun
  Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer added: "He seemed to put wriggling away from the truth far above telling the truth ...... under Alberto Gonzales, the Department of Justice was a sinking ship."
• Nicole Kidman in Monsters and Critics.com
  In April of that year, Nicole said: "I have got hormones running through my system. That is why I sit wriggling, saying I want to have a baby."
• Sienna Miller in Daily Telegraph
  Miller says getting dressed took "a few people and a lot of lying down and wriggling to get into" and left her smelling like a "dead cow" after a long day on the set.