backtrack
turn back **
double back

We'll have to double back a few times and make a couple of jogs.

He crawled out again on the opposite side of the cars, and doubled back the same way he had come.

Then he read to the end of the page, doubling back a few times because he hadn't quite believed what he'd just read.

I did a pair of underpasses, doubling back both times so a trail car could not follow.

I've doubled back a couple of times.

He'd tracked away from the area and then doubled back somewhere, somehow, and was waiting; perhaps watching.

Seven or eight miles out of the valley, he doubled back with his lights off.

She switched from one natural trail to another, crossed a small stream, doubled back the way she had come.

Jemmy had to double back a few times to guide the others to foot- and handholds.

They took an alley which doubled back the way they had come and then they branched off it.