crisscross

Definition

To move back and forth over or through.

Etymology

From Middle English crist-crosse, crists-crosse (“Christ's cross”).

Example Sentences

• "As it turned out, the itinerary was disconcertingly illogical, involving criss-crossing America in anything but a straight line."
• "He told me about all the odd jobs he'd taken after I was born, when Michigan's economy was tanking. For one, he crisscrossed the Midwest buying old carpets from dentists' offices."
• "Throughout this period, and beyond, into the rest of the battle, aircraft of various types and loadouts are crisscrossing the skies in desperate harassment attacks, with the pilots having to play constant games of "guess the carrier" to decide where to land as escort carriers are hit, sunk, disappear in columns of shell splashes, or are forced to evade at angles to the wind that make landing on them impossible."