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switchback
switchback
English

Switchback on a forest trail.

Switchbacks on the Route du Col de Braus (France)
Noun
switchback (plural switchbacks)
- A zigzag path, road or railway track; especially a railway track in which the train travels in a reverse direction at each switch
- A hairpin bend.
- (dated, Britain) A roller coaster.
Translations
Verb
switchback (third-person singular simple present switchbacks, present participle switchbacking, simple past and past participle switchbacked)
- (of a path etc) To zigzag.