@alpenglow all of my side loaders (in the EU, and top loaders are somewhat of a niche item here) have always had a spin cycle that does just the spinning at any one of the speeds the machine is capable of (my current one has 400, 600, 800, 1000 and 1200 rpm).On some machines it may do a bit of flopping if the load is unbalanced, I'd have to test it to see how much of it it would be.I believe that there is also some kind of soak function, but I don't think I've ever used it, and I don't know whether there is some potentially harmful movement.