jockey

One who rides racehorses competitively.

That part of a variable resistor or potentiometer that rides over the resistance wire

An operator of some machinery or apparatus.

A dealer in horses; a horse trader.

And the crime for which Nuncomar was about to die was regarded by them in much the same light in which the selling of an unsound horse, for a sound price, is regarded by a Yorkshire jockey.

A cheat; one given to sharp practice in trade.

To ride (a horse) in a race.

To jostle by riding against.

They were jockeying for position toward the end of the race.

I love jockeying that motorcycle through heavy traffic.

To maneuver (something) by skill; especially, to do so for one's advantage.

They're all jockeying for promotion.

This particularly obtains in all Parliamentary affairs. Whether the business in hand be to get a man in, or get a man out, or get a man over, or promote a railway, or jockey a railway, or what else, nothing is understood to be so effectual as scouring nowhere in a violent hurry—in short, as taking cabs and going about.

To cheat or trick.

I've been jockeyed into doing work for which I get no credit.