swerving

THESAURUS

swerving

aberrancy, aberrant, aberration, aberrative, bend, bias, branching off, circuitous, circuitousness, corner, crook, curve, declination, departing, departure, desultory, detour, deviance, deviancy, deviant, deviating, deviation, deviative, deviatory, devious, deviousness, digression, digressive, discursion, discursive, divagation, divarication, divergence, diversion, dogleg, double, drift, drifting, errant, errantry, erratic, excursion, excursive, excursus, exorbitation, hairpin, indirect, indirection, labyrinthine, mazy, meandering, obliquity, out-of-the-way, pererration, planetary, rambling, roving, serpentine, sheer, shift, shifting, shifting course, shifting path, skew, slant, snaky, stray, straying, sweep, swerve, swinging, tack, turn, turning, twist, twisting, undirected, vagrant, variation, veer, veering, wandering, warp, winding, yaw, zigzag

ROGET THESAURUS

swerving

Deviation

N deviation, swerving, obliquation, warp, refraction, flection, flexion, sweep, deflection, deflexure, declination, diversion, digression, depart from, aberration, divergence, zigzag, detour, divagation, wandering, vagrancy, evagation, bypaths and crooked ways, byroad, sidling, knight's move at chess, deviating, aberrant, errant, excursive, discursive, devious, desultory, loose, rambling, stray, erratic, vagrant, undirected, circuitous, indirect, zigzag, crab-like, astray from, round about, wide of the mark, to the right about, all manner of ways, circuitously, obliquely, sideling, like the move of the knight on a chessboard.