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zigzag

adjective

I steered a zigzag course between the trees:

meandering, zigzagging, snaking, snaky, winding, wiggly, squiggly, crooked, tacking, twisting, twisty, full of twists and turns, curving, curvy, wavy, deviating, undulating, sinuous, serpentine, tortuous, irregular;

technical sinuate, ogee;

rare anfractuous, flexuous, meandrous, serpentiform.

▷antonyms straight.

verb

a narrow path zigzagged steeply down from the house:

meander, snake, twist, twist and turn, tack, wind, weave, wander, wiggle, squiggle, undulate.

zigzag Oxford Dictionary of English