How can I write text with curved arrows over and underneath

Question

I want to make a notation for a cycle ABC. Currently I'm using regular arrows over and underneath like in this example:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\newcommand{\cycle}[1]{
    \underleftarrow{\overrightarrow{#1}}
}
\begin{document}
Using the cycle $\cycle{ABC}$.
\end{document}

Is it possible to make the arrows slightly curved, like this crudely drawn example:

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered May 24 '23 at 12:45

I found a solution based on this: Make \curvearrowright longer. I adapted it to both an arrow above and below the word.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{tikzmark}
\newcounter{cycle}
\newcommand{\cycle}[1]{\stepcounter{cycle}\tikzset{tikzmark prefix=\thecycle}\tikzmark{start}#1\tikzmark{stop}\tikz[remember picture, overlay]{
% over arrow
\draw[->]([shift={(.5ex,2ex)}]pic cs:start) to[bend left=10] ([shift={(-.5ex,2ex)}]pic cs:stop);
% under arrow
\draw[->]([shift={(-.5ex,-.5ex)}]pic cs:stop) to[bend left=10] ([shift={(.5ex,-.5ex)}]pic cs:start)}}
\begin{document}
Using the cycle \cycle{ABC}
\end{document}

This gives output:

Within a block of text, this looks as follows:

How can I write text with curved arrows over and underneath

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