fro
- adverb
- /froʊ/
:
de un lado a otro
- The children ran to and fro in the yard, playing tag all afternoon.
Trends tend not to sustain themselves and and so essentially that back to the pendulum to and fro it flows.
- Trends tend not to sustain themselves and and so essentially that back to the pendulum to and fro it flows.
- I pass my hands soothingly to and fro a few inches from them.
- The keel began to sway to and fro, and they were carried round and round.
- Pure matter, he says, as a listless, aimless movement to and fro within itself.
- It's making good mythical morning being at the tour of mythicality or traveling to and fro across the country.
- You're not just a ship without a sail, without a rudder, getting blown everywhere to and fro.
- So maybe the other cells nearby that support the neurons and feed them and send chemicals to and fro around there have something to do with it?
- Already, when I'd watched them, they were irrevocably doomed, dying and rotting even as they went to and fro.
Examples
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I pass my hands soothingly to and fro a few inches from them.
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The keel began to sway to and fro, and they were carried round and round.
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Does it move to and fro, or is it both at once?
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That is going to and fro, back and forth, and by going up and down.
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And they, they went to and fro from Kansas City all the time.
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She's shuttling us to soccer practices and to and fro from school and just doing anything she can to to, you know, be there.
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They look down the stairs, still standing rigidly on the balls of her feet, swaying to and fro slightly.
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Hench men on long ladders clambered with inexhaustible agility to and fro, depositing fresh stacks of money somewhere high above in the walls.
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He paced to and fro in the room, anxious as he waited for the news.
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The branches swayed to and fro in the wind during the storm.
Idioms
Surface Forms
Etymology
Fro in the phrase to and fro comes from an old word meaning 'away' or 'back', and it shows movement first one way and then the other. That's why fro in this phrase means moving away and then returning.