To And Fro

Definition: To And Fro

To And Fro

Adverb

1. Moving from one place to another and back again; "he traveled back and forth between Los Angeles and New York".

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Synonyms: To And Fro

Agitation

Toss about, jump about; jump like a parched pea; shake like an aspen leaf; shake to its center, shake to its foundations; be the sport of the winds and waves; reel to and fro like a drunken man; move from post to pillar and from pillar to post, drive from post to pillar and from pillar to post, keep between hawk and buzzard.

Changeableness

Verb: fluctuate, vary, waver, flounder, flicker, flitter, flit, flutter, shift, shuffle, shake, totter, tremble, vacillate, wamble, turn and turn about, ring the changes; sway to and fro, shift to and fro; change and change about; waffle, blow with the wind (irresolute); oscillate; vibrate between, two extremes, oscillate between, two extremes; alternate; have as man phases as the moon.

Evolution

Adverb: to and fro, up and down, backwards and forwards, hither and yon, seesaw, zigzag, wibble-wabble, in and out, from side to side, like buckets in a well.

Haste

Verb: haste, hasten; make haste, make a dash; Noun: hurry on, dash on, whip on, push on, press on, press forward; hurry, skurry, scuttle along, barrel along, bundle on, dart to and fro, bustle, flutter, scramble; plunge, plunge headlong; dash off; rush; (violence); express.

Crosswords: To And Fro

To and Fro (1923)

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Books

• To and Fro in Southern California: With Sketches in Arizona and New Mexico (Chicano Heritage Series) (reference)

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Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount : and the tigers are getting hungry. Credit: Library of Congress.

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With hands clasped above her head, she rocked herself wildly to and fro.

The merchant walking to and fro in the back part of his stall, suggested the Eternal Father

The guards went to and fro opening, closing, locking, unlocking the doors

After this exploit, I walked gently to and fro on the bed, to recover my breath and loss of spirits

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Expressions using "to and fro": ad to and fro ♦ go to and fro ♦ rush to and fro. Additional references.

Albanian

nga një vend në një tjetër. (various references)

Bulgarian 

насам-натам (hither and thither), нагоре-надолу (seesaw), напред-назад (seesaw). (various references)

Chinese 

遄 (go to and fro, hurry), �'�弄 (fiddle with, move to and fro, stir up), 往�" (to go back and forth, to go to and fro), 彽 (go to and fro), 儦 (walking to and fro). (various references)

Czech

sem a tam (back and forth, hither and thither). (various references)

Finnish

edestakaisin (back and forth, there and back). (various references)

French

d'avant en arrière. (various references)

German

hin und her (argy-bargy, back and forth, bidirectional, reciprocation, seesaw, there and back, to and from, toggled, vice versa, wrangle), auf und ab (back and forth, ebb and flow, heave, reciprocation, seesaw, undulation, up and down). (various references)

Greek 

μπρος πίσω, πέρα-δώθε, πέρα δώθε. (various references)

Hebrew 

א� �" וא� �" (hither and thither), �"� �" ו�"� �" (back and forth, hither and thither). (various references)

Hungarian

ide-oda (back and forth, backwards and forwards, flutter, hither and thither, thither and thither, to be buffeted by the crowd, to be jostled about, to reciprocate), fel-alá. (various references)

Indonesian

pulang-balik (round trip, vice versa), mondar-mandir, bolak-balik. (various references)

Italian

andare e tornare (go to and fro). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

行ったり来たり (back and forth, going to and fro), 歩き回る (to pace around, to walk about, to walk to and fro), ぶどう�' (aimlessly, be idle, dangle heavily, idly, Japanese beech tree, lazily, loaf, loiter, soft and flabby, stroll idly, sway to and fro, swing, to dangle, to hang around, to linger, to stroll about, to swing, wine). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ぶらぶら (aimlessly, be idle, dangle heavily, idly, lazily, loaf, loiter, stroll idly, sway to and fro, swing), いったりきたり (back and forth, going to and fro), あるきまわる (to pace around, to walk about, to walk to and fro). (various references)

Manx

noon as noal (hence and thence, hither and thither), huggey as veih (hither and thither, hurly-burly), hoal as wass (indiscriminate). (various references)

Pig Latin

otay anday ofray.(various references)

Romanian

încoace şi încolo (back and forth, from pillar to post). (various references)

Russian 

взад и вперед (back and forth). (various references)

Scottish

seòg (swing to and fro), githeilis (running to and fro on trifling errands). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

tamo amo (fro: to and fro). (various references)

Spanish

vaivén (coming and going, seesaw, sway), de un lado para otro. (various references)

Swedish

hit och dit (here and there, hither and thither, this way and that), fram och tillbaka (there and back, up and down), från och till (on and off), av och an (up and down). (various references)

Turkish

ileri geri (back and forth, backwards and forwards), aşağı yukarı (about, approximately, approximative, around, circa, close on, in the neighborhood of, in the neighbourhood of, in the rough, just about, more or less, nigh, pretty much, rough, roughly, roundly, some, something like, sub-, thereabout, tolerably), öne arkaya. (various references)

Ukrainian

туди й назад (here and there, hither and thither, seesaw, to and again, to and back, up and down). (various references)

Welsh

o+l a gwrthol. (various references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: donator, odorant, tandoor, tornado.

-2 letters: fantod, ratoon.

-3 letters: adorn, afoot, donor, draft, fordo, frond, front, radon, rondo, tardo, tondo, trona.

-4 letters: daft, darn, dart, dato, doat, dona, door, drat, fado, fano, fard, faro, fond, font, food, foot, fora, ford, fort, frat, nard, nota, odor, onto, orad, ordo, raft, rand, rant, rato, road, roan, rood.

+3 letters: defloration, deformation.

+4 letters: deflorations, deformations, fluoridation, midafternoon, refoundation.

+5 letters: confederation, deforestation, deformational, fluoridations, midafternoons, refoundations, waterflooding.