double back

verb

1. intr, adverb to go back in the opposite direction (esp in the phrase double back on one's tracks )

Idioms and Phrases

Reverse one's course, go back the way one has come. For example, The officer lost the suspect, who had doubled back on him . This term, at first put simply as to double , is used largely to describe a way of evading pursuit. [Late 1500s]