"gear turning" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used as a noun phrase, meaning the action of a gear turning, or as a gerund phrase, describing the activity of turning gears. Example 1 (as a noun phrase): The constant sound of gears turning in the factory was deafening. Example 2 (as a gerund phrase): He spent hours studying the complexities of gear turning in his mechanical engineering class.
"I don't want to be a gear turning the wheels of a big company," said Katsuma Fujii, V-Sync's chairman and the younger of its co-founders.
It was not only the speed he was carrying but the way he controlled the car, changing gear, turning the steering wheel and using the throttle to keep the turbo boost from dropping away.
But experience has shown it can often work that's what kicked the fight against the Keystone pipeline into high gear, turning it into the highest profile defeat of the oil industry in a generation.
[C8.] A Network Needs a Bicycle A teacher and his class at the Parsons School of Design have rigged bicycles with off-the-shelf networking gear, turning them into free wireless Internet access points using Wi-Fi technology.
The system is also capable of creating new reaction, as a sequence of basics reactions (e.g. an overtaking reaction should consist of reduction of gear, turning light signal on, changing lane, speeding up and changing lane one more time), in an evolutionary way, according to a learning scheme, or even at random.
The motor turns the main gear; the main gear turns three smaller gears; and the small gears turn the driveshaft, which eventually turns the wheel.
He once left it in gear, turned the starting handle and it ran him over.
Today policemen in riot gear turned out in large numbers to prevent any replay of the riots on Saturday night.
The car rolls away because the driver, thinking it is in Park when it remains in gear, turns off the engine and leaves the vehicle.
The Sherman Park neighbourhood, where a heated confrontation between residents and officers in riot gear turned violent overnight, had been peaceful at dusk.
Except, Top Gear turned out to be wildly lucrative, rapidly becoming one of the BBC's most successful brands, alongside Strictly and Doctor Who.
