What is another word for to and fro?

Pronunciation: [tˌuːəndfɹˈə͡ʊ] (IPA)

To and fro is an expression that refers to the back-and-forth motion of something, often a person or object. This movement has many synonyms, including oscillation, swinging, swaying, rocking, and wavering. Other synonyms for to and fro include pendulation, vacillation, seesawing, and undulation. Each of these words implies a slightly different kind of movement, but all connote regular or repeated motion between two points. To and fro is often used as an adverb in spoken English, where it can suggest indecisiveness or uncertainty. Regardless of its form, any word for to and fro will capture the essence of this familiar motion.

What are the hypernyms for To and fro?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Famous quotes with To and fro

  • Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.
    Quintus Ennius
  • If you've lost focus, just sit down and be still. Take the idea and rock it to and fro. Keep some of it and throw some away, and it will renew itself. You need do no more.
    Clarissa Pinkola Estes
  • you love someone, as a feeling. Then it won't be long before you'll be experiencing one or more of the painful feelings I've mentioned above - and thinking it's natural!Even in every day living you're continually interpreting experience via your emotions instead of being the experience direct. "This is good, that's bad," your feelings swing subtly to and fro all day long obscuring the reality, the sensational knowledge or gnosis that it's not bad at all
    Barry Long
  • A number of little birds, to the amount, I believe, of twelve or fourteen, being taken from different cages, were placed upon a table in the presence of the spectators; and there they formed themselves into ranks like a company of soldiers: small cones of paper bearing some resemblance to grenadiers caps were put upon their heads, and diminutive imitations of muskets made with wood, secured under their left wings. Thus equipped, they marched to and fro several times; when a single bird was brought forward, supposed to be a deserter, and set between six of the musketeers, three in a row, who conducted him from the top to the bottom of the table, on the middle of which a small brass cannon charged with a little gunpowder had been previously placed, and the deserter was situated in the front part of the cannon; his guards then divided, three retiring on one side, and three on the other, and he was left standing by himself. Another bird was immediately produced; and, a lighted match being put into one of his claws, he hopped boldly on the other to the tail of the cannon, and, applying the match to the priming, discharged the piece without the least appearance of fear or agitation. The moment the explosion took place, the deserter fell down, and lay, apparently motionless, like a dead bird; but, at the command of his tutor he rose again; and the cages being brought, the feathered soldiers were stripped of their ornaments, and returned into them in perfect order.
    Joseph Strutt
  • Dictators ride to and fro on tigers from which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
    Winston Churchill

Related words: to and from, back and forth, going and coming

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