The act of winding or twisting.

synonyms: twist, wind.

Roget 248: winding etc. v.; convolution, involution, circumvolution; wave, undulation, tortuosity, anfractuosity^†; sinuosity, sinuation^†; meandering, circuit, circumbendibus^†, twist, twirl, windings and turnings, ambages^†; torsion; inosculation^†; reticulation etc. (crossing) 219; rivulation^†; roughness etc. 256.    coil, roll, curl; buckle, spiral, helix, corkscrew, worm, volute, rundle; tendril; scollop^†, scallop, escalop^†; kink; ammonite, snakestone^†.    serpent, eel, maze, labyrinth.    knot.    ... show more

Roget 629: circuit, roundabout way, digression, detour, circumbendibus, ambages^†, loop; winding etc. (circuition) 311^†; zigzag etc. (deviation) 279.    ... show more

Dutch: draai, draaibeweging, gang, toer, winding

Marked by repeated turns and bends:
— Winding roads are full of surprises.

synonyms: tortuous, twisting, twisty, voluminous.

Roget 248: convoluted; winding, twisted etc. v.; tortile^†, tortive^†; wavy; undated, undulatory; circling, snaky, snake-like, serpentine; serpent, anguill^†, vermiform; vermicular; mazy, tortuous, sinuous, flexuous, anfractuous^†, reclivate^†, rivulose^†, scolecoid^†; sigmoid, sigmoidal [Geom.]; spiriferous^†, spiroid^†; involved, intricate, complicated, perplexed; labyrinth, labyrinthic^†, labyrinthian^†, labyrinthine; peristaltic; daedalian^†; kinky, knotted.    wreathy^†, frizzly, crepe, buckled; raveled etc. (in disorder) 59.    spiral, coiled, helical; cochleate, cochleous; screw-shaped; turbinated, turbiniform^†.    ... show more

Of a path e.g.:
— A winding country road.

synonyms: meandering, rambling, wandering.