undulating
Rising and falling
Undulating describes a wavelike motion or form—rising and falling in smooth, continuous curves.
Hills undulate across a landscape; fields of grain undulate in the wind.
The word suggests gentle, rhythmic movement rather than sharp or jagged variation: The road followed the undulating terrain.
Her undulating voice was almost hypnotic.
Swinging back and forth
- swayingRhythmic lateral movement
- bobbingRhythmic vertical movement
- ripplingFlowing in undulations
- pulsatingBeating in rhythmic surges
fluctuating · rolling · surging · heaving · rocking · swinging · bouncing · quivering
Curving in flowing turns
- slitheringSmooth limbless locomotion
- snakingMoving in curves
- coilingLooping around repeatedly
- windingCurving repeatedly, sinuous
curving · twisting · meandering · serpent · python · boa · constrictor · scales
Resembling ocean swells
- pulsingBeating with rhythm
- cadenceRhythmic pulse or pattern
- beatRhythmic pulse or strike
- pulseArterial blood throb
flow · tempo · cyclical · periodic · oscillation · pattern · syncopation · lilt
oscillating
Swinging back and forth
pulsating · fluctuating · rolling · surging · heaving · rocking · swinging · bouncing · quivering · trembling
sinuous
Curving in flowing turns
- slitheringSmooth limbless locomotion
- snakingMoving in curves
- coilingLooping around repeatedly
winding · curving · twisting · meandering · serpent · python · boa · constrictor · scales · gliding
wavelike
Resembling ocean swells
pulse · flow · tempo · cyclical · periodic · oscillation · pattern · syncopation · lilt · groove
waves
Traveling energy disturbances
troughs · billows · surf · tide · currents · whitecaps · breakers · surge · foam · ebb
hills
Low natural elevations
slopes · ridges · dunes · mounds · knolls · hillocks · landscape · topography · elevation · crests
- movementwalk, move, go, run, jump
- dance qualitiesfluidity, graceful, musicality, rhythmic, grace
- deformingbending, twisting, warping, curving, folding
- locomotionwalking, running, crawling, swimming, flying
- repetitive motionsswaying, rocking, bobbing, swinging, bouncing
- reptile traitsscaly, cold-blooded, slithering, forked tongue, shedding skin
undulatingflat
Lacking vertical variation
level · even · planar · smooth · horizontal
undulatingstill
Unmoving, or continuing
motionless · stationary · static · immobile · rigid
- undulating membraneRippling locomotor organelle