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switchbacking

switchbacking is the present participle and gerund of switchback.

Meaning of switchback

Verb

switchback (third-person singular simple present switchbacks, present participle switchbacking, simple past and past participle switchbacked)

  1. (attributive, figuratively, intransitive, often) To take a zigzag course or path.
    • I climbed 6,683-foot Velka Svistovka, not the highest mountain in the Tatras but arguably the one with the best view. I started from Zelene pleso chata (pleso means "lake" and chata means "hut" in Slovak), and right after turning the first corner I started switchbacking.2015 June 25, John Henderson, “A secret range of stunning mountains? Hikers, meet Slovakia’s High Tatras”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC...
    Synonyms:
    zigzag

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Questions about switchbacking

What is switchbacking the present participle and gerund of?
Switchbacking is the present participle and gerund of switchback.

Words near switchbacking in the dictionary

  1. switcharoos
  2. switcharound
  3. switcharounds
  4. switchback
  5. switchbacked
  6. switchbacking
  7. switchbacks
  8. switchbacky
  9. switchblade
  10. switchbladed
  11. switchblades

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Adapted from Wiktionary: switchbacking (page history and authors); switchback (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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