Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb backtrack

1 sense of backtrack

Sense 1
backtrack, turn back, double back -- (retrace one's course; "The hikers got into a storm and had to turn back")
       => return -- (go or come back to place, condition, or activity where one has been before; "return to your native land"; "the professor returned to his teaching position after serving as Dean")