back and forth
C2 moving first in one direction and then in the opposite one:
She swayed gently back and forth to the music.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Backwards, sideways and back and forth
- anticlockwise
- aside
- back
- backward
- backwards
- broadside
- counterclockwise
- crabwise
- hither and thither idiom
- retro
- right/wrong way round idiom
- side
- sideways
- stand
- stand back
- there
- there and back idiom
- to and fro
- to-ing and fro-ing
- wrong
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