double back

English

double back (third-person singular simple present doubles back, present participle doubling back, simple past and past participle doubled back)

(idiomatic) To retrace one's steps; to go back where one has already gone.
They doubled back in hopes of finding the road again.
- 2017 July 23, Brandon Nowalk, “The great game begins with a bang on Game Of Thrones (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club‎^[1]:
  And now she has the real dilemma: press on to King’s Landing, where I have no doubt she could get as close to killing Cersei as anyone else, or double back to Winterfell to reunite with her family.