twist
Twisting is like when you take a piece of dough and you want to make a pretzel. You hold both ends and turn them around each other. This makes the dough look like it’s hugging itself. Twisting can also be like when you have a wet towel, and you want to squeeze out all the water. You grab both ends and turn them in opposite directions, making the towel tight and wrinkly.
Another way to think about twisting is like when you have a swing, and you spin it round and round. When you let go, the swing untwists, and it goes back to the way it was before. This is because the swing wants to return to its normal shape.
Twisting is also like when you take a cap off a bottle. You have to turn the cap around and around until it comes off. This is a twist because you are making the cap spin in a circle to open the bottle. So, twisting is when you turn something around, either to change its shape, squeeze it, or open it.