time loop

A hypothetical or fictional instance of characters living through a set period of time repeatedly until the loop can be broken.

Noun

  1. A hypothetical or fictional instance of characters living through a set period of time repeatedly until the loop can be broken.
    • Edge Of Tomorrow, Doug Liman’s click-clacky sci-fi take on Groundhog Day, stars Tom Cruise as a smarmy press flack who gets stuck in a time loop during an alien invasion. - 2014 June 5, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, “Edge Of...

Origin

From time + loop.

Forms

time loops

Related

closed time loop Groundhog Day