Makes sharp turns back and forth

Usage examples of zigzags.

Whatever the figure may be, the course pursued is often interrupted by zigzags, small triangles, loops, or ellipses.

In several other cases, for instance, when a leaf after describing during the day one or more fairly regular ellipses, zigzags much in the evening, it appears as if energy was being expended, so that the great evening rise or fall might coincide with the period of the day proper for this movement.

The line dividing these two great classes zigzags its way through the religious community, sometimes following denominational layers and cleavages, sometimes going, like a geological fracture, through many different strata.