backtrack
/ˈbæk.tɹæk/
backtrack noun: the act of backtracking.
Noun
backtrack (plural backtracks)
- The act of backtracking.
Verb
backtrack (third-person singular simple present backtracks, present participle backtracking, simple past and past participle backtracked)
- To retrace one's steps.
- I dropped my sunglasses and had to backtrack to find them.
- Trophy in paw, I invest another hour twenty backtracking to find my original spawn-in spot, and reduce Fluffoki and her little friendlings to so much dead flesh, although sorry to say, it being a kids' game, they die in splatters of sparks rather than [...]2008, Lauren Beukes, Moxyland - Page 86
- To repeat or review work already done.
- If we backtrack through this problem, maybe we can figure out where we went wrong.
- To taxi down an active runway in the opposite direction to that being used for takeoff.
- Speedbird One: enter and backtrack Runway 27 Left.
- To exercise a racehorse around the racetrack in the opposite direction to that in which races are run.
- To go back on or withdraw a statement.
- After enormous public outrage, the government backtracked on its proposed ban.
- Woodward’s mild rebuke of Tatis received backlash from most players who spoke out, and even Woodward backtracked and reexplained himself the next day.2020 August 22, Adam Kilgore, “Baseball’s unwritten rules may be softening, but they haven’t gone away”, in The Washington Post
- Synonyms:
- backpedal
backtrack meaning in Bengali and Kannada
backtrack in Bengali
- পেছনে ফেরা
backtrack in Kannada
- ಹಿನ್ನಡೆ
Examples of backtrack in a sentence
- Many grammars work fine without backtracking, or with backtracking in just a few places.
- I backtracked into the bedroom and got a weak-batteried Boy Scout flashlight.
- He backtracked, got his helmet on, and went downladder to the auxiliary locks.
Synonyms of backtrack
Forms of backtrack
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | backtracks |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | backtracks |
| present participle | backtracking |
| past participle | backtracked |
| past | backtracked |
Origin of backtrack
From back + track.
Words formed from backtrack
Questions about backtrack
- What does backtrack mean?
- Backtrack means the act of backtracking.
- What is backtrack in Bengali?
- Backtrack in Bengali is পেছনে ফেরা. See Backtrack meaning in Bengali.
- What part of speech is backtrack?
- Backtrack can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce backtrack?
- Backtrack is pronounced /ˈbæk.tɹæk/.
- What is the plural of backtrack?
- The plural of backtrack is backtracks.
Words near backtrack in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: backtrack (page history and authors); backtrack (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); backtrack (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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