"I stepped into my skis and shuffled to the edge of the steep slope"

• shift one's position while sitting or move one's feet while standing, typically because of boredom, nervousness, or embarrassment

  "Christine shuffled uneasily in her chair"

• put part of one's body into (an item of clothing), typically in a clumsy way

  "she shuffled her feet into a pair of shoes"

"he shuffled the cards and cut the deck"

• move (people or things) around so as to occupy different positions or to be in a different order

  "my father shuffled his money around various building societies"

• play or arrange (tracks on a music player) in a random order

  "the control lets you shuffle or skip songs by flicking the phone with your wrist"

• sort or look through (a number of things) hurriedly

  "he shuffled through the papers"

"Mr Milles did not frankly own it, but seem'd to shuffle about it"

• get out of (a difficult situation) in an underhand way

  "he shuffles out of the consequences by vague charges of undue influence"

"there was a shuffle of approaching feet"

• a quick dragging or scraping movement of the feet in dancing

  "Violet tried on a top hat and did a brief vaudeville shuffle"

• a dance performed with quick dragging or scraping movements of the feet
• a piece of music for or in the style of a shuffle

  "it's the usual blend of boogie, shuffle, and ballad"

• a rhythmic motif based on a shuffle dance step and typical of early jazz, consisting of alternating crotchets and quavers in a triplet pattern

"the discard is removed from the deck until the next shuffle"

• a change of order or relative positions; a reshuffle

  "the Prime Minister may have to consider a cabinet shuffle in the spring"

• a facility on a music player for playing tracks in an arbitrary order

  "I had my iPod on shuffle and ‘Eleanor Rigby’ just happened to begin playing"