Zigzag
noun
A pattern or path that moves repeatedly left and right in sharp angles.
The rabbit ran in a zigzag to escape the fox
Often appears as...
- zigzag pattern
- zigzag path
verb
To move or make something move in a zigzag.
The skier zigzagged down the slope
Often appears as...
- zigzag down
- zigzag through
adjective
Having the pattern or form of a zigzag.
The rug has a zigzag pattern
Often appears as...
- zigzag pattern
- zigzag path
adverb
In a way that moves repeatedly left and right in sharp angles.
He walked zigzag across the field
Often appears as...
- walk zigzag
- run zigzag
noun
A pattern or path that moves repeatedly left and right in sharp angles.
The rabbit ran in a zigzag to escape the fox
Often appears as...
- zigzag pattern
- zigzag path
verb
To move or make something move in a zigzag.
The skier zigzagged down the slope
Often appears as...
- zigzag down
- zigzag through
adjective
Having the pattern or form of a zigzag.
The rug has a zigzag pattern
Often appears as...
- zigzag pattern
- zigzag path
adverb
In a way that moves repeatedly left and right in sharp angles.
He walked zigzag across the field
Often appears as...
- walk zigzag
- run zigzag
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/3Avoid Straight Lines
Use 'zigzag' when describing paths or patterns that are not straight; it implies constant change in direction.
The trail up the mountain zigzagged to the peak.
Pro Tip 2/3Visual Imagery
'Zigzag' often creates a vivid picture in the reader's or listener's mind of something moving unpredictably.
Lightning zigzagged across the night sky.
Pro Tip 3/3Dynamic Action
Describing movement as 'zigzag' suggests agility and quick, sharp turns, often used in chase scenes.
The thief zigzagged through the market to evade the police.
Pro Tip 1/3Avoid Straight Lines
Use 'zigzag' when describing paths or patterns that are not straight; it implies constant change in direction.
The trail up the mountain zigzagged to the peak.
Pro Tip 2/3Visual Imagery
'Zigzag' often creates a vivid picture in the reader's or listener's mind of something moving unpredictably.
Lightning zigzagged across the night sky.
Pro Tip 3/3Dynamic Action
Describing movement as 'zigzag' suggests agility and quick, sharp turns, often used in chase scenes.
The thief zigzagged through the market to evade the police.
Pro Tip 1/3Avoid Straight Lines
Use 'zigzag' when describing paths or patterns that are not straight; it implies constant change in direction.
The trail up the mountain zigzagged to the peak.
Pro Tip 2/3Visual Imagery
'Zigzag' often creates a vivid picture in the reader's or listener's mind of something moving unpredictably.
Lightning zigzagged across the night sky.
Pro Tip 3/3Dynamic Action
Describing movement as 'zigzag' suggests agility and quick, sharp turns, often used in chase scenes.
The thief zigzagged through the market to evade the police.
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Safari Live - Day 134 PIPE...
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Bjarke Ingels: 3...
Trying to zigzag it to make sure that all of the apartments look at the straight views, instead of into each other. Until recently, this was the view from my apartment, onto this place where our client actually bought the neighbor site. And he said that he was going to do an apartment block next to a parking structure.
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How math saved my life PIPE...
circle with rectangles and it was like a door in my mind that I had never opened opened up and I walked through it and realized you can't you can make the pixels half that size and half that size all the way to infinity but the edge of the circle will always be a zigzag even
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Albatrosses' Life-Long...
distance is the way that it flies it does this amazing zigzagging pattern what it's doing is it's turning up into wind it's gaining gravitational potential energy it gains altitude when it reaches the peak it then turns in the direction that it wants to travel and
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Leap of Faith PIPE National...
constantly jumping crevices and zigzagging back and forth one misplaced eft and you're sliding right down on these crevasses kind of the first deep for rasp we've run into looks like it goes on a long ways here
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Safari Live - Day 333 PIPE...
that female ostriches are I have no idea probably close by I mean they do often stay in big groups or bigger groups and at least a pair now they've gone back into gym I said it just is zigzagging so
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Buried Alive! PIPE Steve is...
down to dogs like sorrow to save the day just died for the sound of some scrabbling paws overhead the dogs are trained to zigzag back and forth trying to pick up the scent of a buried person
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Krista Tippett:...
that it was some of your very wounding experiences in a religious life that, with a zigzag, have led to the Charter for Compassion. Compassion can't be reduced to sainthood
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What happens to your...
A throbbing, pounding headache. Bright zigzagging lines across your field of vision.
Video examples
Why specializing early...
then they sew the patient back up. That performed just as a well. And yet surgeons who specialize in the procedure continue to do it by the millions. So if hyperspecialization isn't always the trick in a wicked world, what is? That can be difficult to talk about, because it doesn't always look like this path. Sometimes it looks like meandering or zigzagging
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 134 PIPE...
these zigzagging movements they don't go in a straight line they kind of move like this so they go so much further than they need to but it's all about energy and they're feeding along as they go so that is a marvelous article that we read just the other day and that's truth because they got the trackers on the bird now before all we could know
Video examples
Bjarke Ingels: 3...
Trying to zigzag it to make sure that all of the apartments look at the straight views, instead of into each other. Until recently, this was the view from my apartment, onto this place where our client actually bought the neighbor site. And he said that he was going to do an apartment block next to a parking structure.
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How math saved my life PIPE...
circle with rectangles and it was like a door in my mind that I had never opened opened up and I walked through it and realized you can't you can make the pixels half that size and half that size all the way to infinity but the edge of the circle will always be a zigzag even
Video examples
Albatrosses' Life-Long...
distance is the way that it flies it does this amazing zigzagging pattern what it's doing is it's turning up into wind it's gaining gravitational potential energy it gains altitude when it reaches the peak it then turns in the direction that it wants to travel and
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Leap of Faith PIPE National...
constantly jumping crevices and zigzagging back and forth one misplaced eft and you're sliding right down on these crevasses kind of the first deep for rasp we've run into looks like it goes on a long ways here
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Safari Live - Day 333 PIPE...
that female ostriches are I have no idea probably close by I mean they do often stay in big groups or bigger groups and at least a pair now they've gone back into gym I said it just is zigzagging so
Video examples
Buried Alive! PIPE Steve is...
down to dogs like sorrow to save the day just died for the sound of some scrabbling paws overhead the dogs are trained to zigzag back and forth trying to pick up the scent of a buried person
Video examples
Krista Tippett:...
that it was some of your very wounding experiences in a religious life that, with a zigzag, have led to the Charter for Compassion. Compassion can't be reduced to sainthood
Video examples
What happens to your...
A throbbing, pounding headache. Bright zigzagging lines across your field of vision.
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Clive Sinclair
British Author
My own zigzag path through life led me back to Santa Cruz in the early Eighties, and I have revisited regularly since. The place hasn't changed: head in the clouds, backside on the hills and feet in the ocean - one of the most decent and beautiful places on earth.
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Robert Fortune
Scottish Scientist
The main stem was then in most cases twisted in a zigzag form, which process checked the flow of the sap, and at the same time encouraged the production of side branches at those parts of the stem where they were most desired.
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Nick Davies
British Journalist
I've learnt that your life is more interesting and fulfilling when you don't lead it in a straight line and you go off on zigzags. I've made it a rule that if life becomes too comfortable and easy, I'll disrupt it.
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Kelly Miller
American Sociologist
I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy.
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Tyson Fury
American Athlete
Whatever is conventional, I am the opposite. So if you want to walk in a straight line, I am going to walk in zigzags. If you want to throw a 1-2, I'll throw a 2-1.
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Louis Navellier
American Businessman
We call it the zigzag theory. You want to find something that zigs and something that zags and blend them together to get a better combined performance.
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Beck
American Musician
I'm just taking one step at a time. I could zigzag one way, but it's not usually on purpose.
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Denise Morrison
American Businesswoman
I describe my career path as a zigzag, not a ladder.
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Clive Sinclair
British Author
My own zigzag path through life led me back to Santa Cruz in the early Eighties, and I have revisited regularly since. The place hasn't changed: head in the clouds, backside on the hills and feet in the ocean - one of the most decent and beautiful places on earth.
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Robert Fortune
Scottish Scientist
The main stem was then in most cases twisted in a zigzag form, which process checked the flow of the sap, and at the same time encouraged the production of side branches at those parts of the stem where they were most desired.
Quote examples
Nick Davies
British Journalist
I've learnt that your life is more interesting and fulfilling when you don't lead it in a straight line and you go off on zigzags. I've made it a rule that if life becomes too comfortable and easy, I'll disrupt it.
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Kelly Miller
American Sociologist
I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy.
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Tyson Fury
American Athlete
Whatever is conventional, I am the opposite. So if you want to walk in a straight line, I am going to walk in zigzags. If you want to throw a 1-2, I'll throw a 2-1.
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Louis Navellier
American Businessman
We call it the zigzag theory. You want to find something that zigs and something that zags and blend them together to get a better combined performance.
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Beck
American Musician
I'm just taking one step at a time. I could zigzag one way, but it's not usually on purpose.
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Denise Morrison
American Businesswoman
I describe my career path as a zigzag, not a ladder.
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