backtrack
The act of backtracking.
Noun
- The act of backtracking.
Origin
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg-der.? Proto-Germanic *baką Proto-West Germanic *bak Old English bæc Middle English bak English back English track English backtrack From back + track.
Forms
Verb
- To retrace one's steps.
- I dropped my sunglasses and had to backtrack to find them.
- Trophy in paw, I invest another hour twenty backtracking to find my original spawn-in spot, and reduce Fluffoki and her little friendlings to so much dead flesh, although sorry to say, it being a kids' game, they die in...
- To repeat or review work already done.
- If we backtrack through this problem, maybe we can figure out where we went wrong.
- To taxi down an active runway in the opposite direction to that being used for takeoff.
- Speedbird One: enter and backtrack Runway 27 Left.
- To exercise a racehorse around the racetrack in the opposite direction to that in which races are run.
- To go back on or withdraw a statement.
- Woodward’s mild rebuke of Tatis received backlash from most players who spoke out, and even Woodward backtracked and reexplained himself the next day. - 2020 August 22, Adam Kilgore, “Baseball’s unwritten rules may be...
- “You saw the disaster that followed when Trump spoke out against the Florida [amendment],” said Trish Crouse, a political science professor at the University of New Haven. “He found himself having to backtrack and...
Synonyms: backpedal