alternating weeks

Every other week

Alternating weeks describes a recurring schedule where something happens every other week rather than every week: The kids stay with their father on alternating weeks.

Common in custody arrangements, work schedules, and shared responsibilities.

The pattern creates a two-week cycle where weeks "on" trade with weeks "off."

Opposites
temporal pattern/continuity

alternating weeksconsecutive weeks

Weeks without interruption between

weekly · nonstop · constant

regularity/predictability

alternating weekswhenever

At any occasion

ad hoc · as needed · on-and-off

Family

alternate, alternating, alternation, alternator, alternately, alternative, alternatively, alternatives, alternates

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Everyday, not technical · Rated G