Synonyms for up and down
up and down

Princeton's WordNet

1. up and downadverb

   moving backward and forward along a given course

   "he walked up and down the locker room"; "all up and down the Eastern seaboard"

2. up and downadverb

   alternately upward and downward

   "he eyed him up and down"

Suggested Resources

1. up and down

   Read the full text of the Up and Down poem by dan henry lambrix on the Poetry.com website.

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1. Communications Director Sergio Gor:

   Rand Paul's campaign is on an upswing, despite what a lot of reporters have written out there, polls go up and down and this is literally a marathon and not a sprint. The fact that we are raising more than we're spending is a great indication that we're in this for the long haul.

2. Rick Turner:

   The best day of our whole trip was in Desenzano, we hired a speedboat and spent a few hours zooming up and down the lake – it was awesome. We were going round Garda Island, that huge palace [ the neo-gothic Villa Borghese, a Venetian-style mansion on Garda’s largest island ]. You could go wherever you wanted.

3. Jamie Griffin:

   Jamie Griffin was bobbing up and down and Amy said Jamie Griffin's in trouble, they were not where they needed to be at all. Six to eight-foot waves, it was very rough.

4. Gavin Newsom:

   I don't care who's up and down, whosepolls are looking better than someone else's or who wants to runfor president or who doesn't, when it comes to timesof crisis, we need to [rise] above the partisanship andI've extended always an open hand, not a closed fist, those circumstances. And this is no different.

5. Keith Brock:

   The sound was deafening, like 100 freight trains, ground was bouncing up and down.