Twiddling

The British Sign Language sign for gay is someone basically twiddling a joystick held in their hand, and if that’s not proof video games are gay I don’t know what is.

You'd welcome some thumb-twiddling time!

Schmeichel was in Porto on behalf of American broadcaster CBS Sports to conduct pre- and post-match interviews, but he was left twiddling his thumbs when the Arsenal players were a no-show.

Most of the film is spent twiddling fingers waiting for the story to kick in before one realizes the movie is already in the thick of it.

And while everyone's distracted, Obama yanks a Melvin on Stephen Miller and walks away, twiddling his thumbs.

Bøgh recorded how he shook his head at how the fictional Egon Olsen miraculously managed to open safes by listening and twiddling the knob.

It’s well over an hour before Polonius is killed, with Ophelia essentially offstage twiddling her thumbs.

Sky is about to announce the launch of a voice-activated device, as part of its new Sky Q platform, potentially rendering the traditional remote as outmoded as the test card, twiddling the dial, waggling the aerial and other ancient relics and lost arts.

Since only one side of the racquet is used to hit the ball, two contrasting rubber types can be applied to the blade, offering the advantage of "twiddling" the racket to fool the opponent.