rolling hillsides

Wavy pastoral terrain

Rolling hillsides are gently undulating terrain—hills that rise and fall in smooth, continuous waves across a landscape.

The phrase evokes pastoral scenery: rolling hillsides dotted with grazing sheep, vineyards spread across the rolling hillsides.

Rolling suggests motion despite the stillness, as if the land itself flows toward the horizon.

Related

open fields · pastoral · English countryside · valleys · green · gentle · countryside · verdant · farmland · stone walls · grazing · sheep · windswept · bucolic · terrain · contours · landscape · wide open spaces

Opposites
terrain flatness

rolling hillsidesflatlands

Level, unvarying terrain

prairies · steppes · flat terrain · level ground · mesas

terrain extremity

rolling hillsidesjagged peaks

Irregular pointed mountaintops

rugged cliffs · alpine peaks · mountain ranges · canyons · ravines

landscape character

rolling hillsidesrocky desert

Arid terrain strewn with stones

concrete jungle · urban sprawl · industrial landscape · parched earth · frozen tundra

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Familiarity
Top 100,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G