Zigzag on a hike

Usage examples of switchback.

Pausing at a switchback staircase that ascended to the top floor of the building, Peart listened.

An enforced halt to let the radiator cool finally turned the journey into an ordeal and it was not until the afternoon had taken its first turn towards dusk that he reached Strete Barton through a switchback of high-hedged lanes halfway between Dartmouth and Kingsbridge.

It was not so easy to forgive Aunt Alphonsine, for her voice had been as sharp as it could be without being honestly angry, like bad wine instead of good vinegar, and had run indefatigably up the switchbacks on which the voices of Frenchwomen travel eternally.

The path was difficult here, steep and switchbacking back and forth, with a fallaway of some 200 yards.

The switchbacking terrain was exhausting, even for the hardier members of the group.

He had spun an elaborate, supersecret network, with cutouts and switchbacks and complex electronic mazes created by canny old spies.

The trek up the mountain to the switchback trailhead is a good couple of miles at a grade of at least forty-five degrees.

The road had become a sort of switchback among shallow glens, and the befogged lamps showed that it was bounded by no paling or hedge or drystone dyke, but marched directly with bent and heather.

But on this side of the gorge the wind was less, and the next switchback came up among sizeable, snow-blanketed evergreens that cut off the sight of the valley.

This sort of switchback work is all right for a cobby, short-backed, short-legged little horse, but it is killing work for a big, long-striding hunter such as one wants in the Midlands.

Three more descending switchbacks bring them to a narrow canyon that seems to wind due west, although it is so narrow that the three ride in shadows, ice still filling the crevices on the left side of the road, and the light of the midday sun only apparent on the clifftops when Dorrin looks straight up.

The horse grew more and more skittish, and he tried to calm and control the animal, and so he was still there when MacDonald rounded the switchback turn and practically ran into him.

Though I fought my way down, down through the switchbacks, still these concussions drew closer, while screaming voices came avalanching down behind me, fleeing troops in whose shrill outcry recurred the word queen like a refrain.

Finally it opened into a vast impression of blank space, and began to climb a steep, serrated rock face through a series of switchbacks.

When the arroyo ended in a box canyon, a switchbacked trail gave them access to the plateau above.