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winding; circuitous (Some movements are direct and extensive, others are circuitous and brief. – Некоторые движения – протяженные и направленные, другие – отрывистые и петляющие. (Джозеф Ястров; о траекториях непроизвольных движений руки, зарегистрированных во время различного рода умственной деятельности. Fact and fable in psychology, 1900) Min$draV) |
amer. |
roundabout (путь: we need to take a roundabout route to throw off any pursuit Val_Ships) |
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gen. |
run file; dodge (Anglophile); weave (Mermaiden); zigzag (sever_korrespondent); wander (The river wanders through the valley. VLZ_58); snaggle (напр., о тропе NGGM); meander (VLZ_58); snake (The footprints aroused the hunter's curiosity. A light snow had fallen the night before, making it easy for Collins, a veteran tracker, to follow the tracks. The footprints snaked through the wilderness until they reached the northern slopes of Upper Twin Mountain. It is here that Collins learns that these are not the footprints of a bear, but something much stranger. -- следы петляли по лесу (mysteriousuniverse.org) ART Vancouver) |
Gruzovik |
go all over; travel about |
auto. |
swerve about (Andrey Truhachev); weave along (Andrey Truhachev); weave one's way from side to side (Andrey Truhachev) |
fig. |
equivocate; prevaricate |
Gruzovik, inf. |
meander of river, road, etc; wind of river, road, etc |
idiom., context. |
do some fancy footwork (сугубо контекстуально Liv Bliss) |
inf. |
go all over; travel about; wind (of river, road, etc) |
Makarov. |
wind (о зайце и т.п.) |
Makarov., inf. |
to dipsy-doodle (о тропе) |
textile |
kink up |