WordNet
adv. moving from one place to another and back again; "he traveled back and forth between Los Angeles and New York" [syn: back and forth, to and fro]
Usage examples of "backward and forward".
Harry looked up at the stars still glimmering palely in the dark sky and listened to the sea washing backward and forward against the cliff: He was going to miss the sound.
He rocked backward and forward on his small feet for a moment and spun his bowler hat in his hands.
He flew backward and forward across the field past blurred red and yellow shapes, with no idea of what was happening in the rest of the game.
Nature has moved inexplicably backward and forward to produce this marvelous, subtle Spice.
She was rocking backward and forward slightly in her chair, exactly like Dobby did when he was teetering on the edge of revealing forbidden information.
Shef walked over, grasped the embedded arrow, worked it backward and forward.
The old man was beside himself: moved the chair on which he was sitting noisily backward and forward, made efforts to control himself and not become vehement, but almost always did become vehement, scolded, and sometimes flung the exercise book away.