The Collaborative International Dictionary
Zigzag \Zig"zag`\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Zigzagged; p. pr. & vb. n. Zigzagging.] To form with short turns.
Wiktionary
wind#Verb, twisting, turning or sinuous n. The movement or layout of something that zigzags. v
(present participle of zigzag English)
WordNet
adj. having short sharp turns or angles
[also: zigzagging, zigzagged]
n. an angular shape characterized by sharp turns in alternating directions [syn: zig, zag]
adv. in a zigzag course or on a zigzag path; "birds flew zigzag across the blue sky"
v. travel along a zigzag path; "The river zigzags through the countryside" [syn: crank]
[also: zigzagging, zigzagged]
See zigzag
Usage examples of "zigzagging".
With all the zigzagging the merchies were doing, their effective speed of advance was only about sixteen knots, and a November might try to catch up with that.
Two of the Libyans, and even some of the troopers' mounts, shied when going by noisy, squeaking, heavy-wheeled drays that were bringing stone, timber, slates, and bricks up the steep and zigzagging slope.
Chicago ran for twenty minutes, zigzagging slightly to avoid the Russian sonobuoys, as the firecontrol men kept updating their solutions.
Caleb ignored the obvious ones as he pressed on around the shoulder, zigzagging through the steepest parts, always descending.
A water drop zigzagging across a tiny crack in the slanting ceiling, the slow seepage of more water, the even slower precipitation of stone, more seepage flowing over the new stone, more precipitation, until the result was an extraordinary limestone drapery so delicate that light could slide through it in a subtle blaze of radiance.
The shoulder of land they were climbing was so steep that Caleb was zigzagging upward in long sweeps.
Going west would be easy for a day, then there’s a long climb over the divide and some zigzagging on the other side.
Avalanche Creek’s east fork went up the side of the mountain like lightning, zigzagging from ravine to cascade to ravine.
The small airport was on top of a mesa, connected to the town by a steep, zigzagging road.
Skillfully zigzagging, dipping, and rising, she avoided each living being and stone pillar in the long tube.
She took evasive maneuvers like a veteran fighter, zigzagging over the pursuers' heads and diving between two so their red lightning bolts narrowly missed each other.
Two of the larger places had not only houses but outbuildings, and in one of the yards two horses were zigzagging back and forth in the snow.
He could see women and girls filing up the uneven steps zigzagging up the cliffside, everyone laden with so many bundles he wondered how they moved.
The three columns of merchantmen were zigzagging, however, making life a little easier on all concerned.
It was clear that their targets were zigzagging, which made the range computations even more difficult.