Is pacing a "stim?"

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I do it when very upset or impatient but I think doing it for those reasons is fairly common.

I've been pacing like a house afire (just a figure of speech that means I've been doing it a heck of a lot) all day since my older stepbrothers and niece and nephew got here this morning, and the house has had a lot more activity in it than it has for the past week or so. I also pace when I'm on the phone with somebody, since I have anxiety about talking on phones. I tend to stim mostly when I'm either feeling really peppy and energetic, or anxious, and I've been mostly anxious, so yes, I guess it could be considered a stim.

I modified my pacing
into walking in circles
in my backyard.

I've now got a 44 pace
barked oval path
that I walk
for 2 hours at a time.

It feels like the repetition
lets my overactive senses
relax and take a break
("We've seen this before.
We're safe.
Let's all agree.)
And the physical activity
distracts them.
("Hey we're walking"
Hey, we're still walking.
We're walking down here,
is everyone else walking?)

Sometimes
a few laps
with fluttering hands
is needed to keep the sensory
distraction going.

Once my senses
are safely occupied,
I feel myself
coming out from behind
the curtain.

Definitely. I pace while reading almost every day. NTs think that this is weird.

Yes definitely, I've been known to do it for hours at a time. When I really need it, I sometimes spin while pacing.

The person who wrote my 'obituary' (so to speak) when I left my last (and only) job, stated that I was like a 'caged lion', in reference to the fact that I used to walk round the staff room in circles at various points of the day. It must have been quite irritating for certain colleagues, but I don't think I was aware of that for the most part. I've only realized that it's a form of stimming since joining WP, but I've been doing it at least since my early teens.