def current_gesture() ->str:
    """Return the name of the current gesture.

    .. note::

        MicroPython understands the following gesture names: ``"up"``, ``"down"``,
        ``"left"``, ``"right"``, ``"face up"``, ``"face down"``, ``"freefall"``,
        ``"3g"``, ``"6g"``, ``"8g"``, ``"shake"``. Gestures are always
        represented as strings."""
