ebb and flow (?.)
- Lissajous figure
- alternate
- alternation
- back and fill
- back-and-forth
- battledore and shuttlecock
- be poised
- billow
- break
- comb
- come and go
- coming and going
- crash
- dash
- direct tide
- ebb
- ebb tide
- flood
- flood tide
- flounder
- flow
- fluctuate
- flux
- flux and reflux
- full tide
- go through phases
- heave
- high tide
- high water
- hitch and hike
- lift
- low tide
- low water
- lunar tide
- neap
- neap tide
- opposite tide
- oscillate
- pass and repass
- peak
- pendulate
- popple
- reciprocate
- reciprocation
- refluence
- reflux
- rhythmic play
- ride and tie
- ring the changes
- rip
- riptide
- rise
- rise and fall
- roll
- scend
- seesaw
- seesawing
- send
- shift
- shuffle
- shuttle
- shuttlecock
- sine wave
- smash
- solar tide
- spring tide
- stagger
- surge
- sway
- swell
- swing
- teeter
- teeter-totter
- teeter-tottering
- teetering
- thalassometer
- tidal amplitude
- tidal current
- tidal current chart
- tidal flow
- tidal range
- tide
- tide chart
- tide gate
- tide gauge
- tide race
- tide rip
- tidewater
- tideway
- to-and-fro
- toss
- totter
- tottering
- turn
- undulate
- ups and downs
- vacillate
- vary
- wave
- waver
- wax and wane
- wibble-wabble
- wigwag
- wobble
- zigzag