side-to-side

adj

adj

Etymology side + to + side

Moving horizontally, from one side to another and back.

The boat rocked with a steady side-to-side motion.
It was nearly all downhill into Shrewsbury, with two intermediate stops, and a grand sequence of long curves around which Soult nuzzled her way with a quick side-to-side action.1951 October, R. S. McNaught, “Lines of Approach”, in Railway Magazine, page 706:

Entry derived from the Wiktionary, under licence CC BY-SA 4.0 — list of authors.