move back and forth

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   move in one direction and then into the opposite direction

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Questions about move back and forth

What does move back and forth mean?

move back and forth means "move in one direction and then into the opposite direction".

Is move back and forth a common word?

move back and forth is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.