How would you call that type of reckless driving ?

Swerving or weaving or cutting through traffic. "**What** would you call **this** type", by the way.

Weaving in and out of lanes

I've call this "weaving in and out of traffic". Hoon seems to be an Australian term for a bad driver; I've never heard of it until your post.

We old folks call it weaving. Some younger folks call it cutting.

In Georgia, USA, I’d call it “weaving in traffic” or “weaving in and out”. The ticket-able offense is called “reckless driving”.

That's lane-hopping.

"Swerving between lanes" [of traffic/cars]

Illinois Standard.

gen z would refer to this at "cutting up"

Swimming Cutting up traffic Weaving in and out of traffic

"Cutting up"- самое близкое к "шашковать", более сленговый термин, так же иногда используется "Swimming" или "Swimming through Traffic" Примеры: Have you seen that F90 and 205 cutting up on I-95? Hey, I just got a full tank of gas, let's cut up in my RS4!

Weaving

Zigzagging

Swerving/weaving through traffic, cutting up, or swimming

I’d call this dangerous behaviour ‘driving right when you should drive as left as possible.’ If black car would just merge left, whole right lane could open up… reckless

Getting skinny

Cab driver core

"Lane jockey" though it's been a long time since I've heard it used I see it happen about every day here in Cali

Dangerous driving

“Checkers” is so clever, I think I might have to start saying that

weaving through traffic. a more vulgar way to say it is "driving like an asshole"

There is (i think) a new term called "swimming" or "lane swimming". It is definitely a highly illegal and more dangerous version of what you're showing here. People are correct with "weaving" as a general purpose word.

Reckless driving; swerving between lanes; weaving in and out of traffic; being an asshole

Weaving through traffic Weaving through lanes.

In England we call it ‘shit driving’

There’s an irresponsible sub culture online that post videos of themselves driving like this. They call it “swimming” Most people call it “weaving through traffic”

Weaving

Nissan Altima activities

I call it "bobbing and weaving [through traffic]"

You can also call it „threading the needle“ because there’s such a small margin for success in the execution.

I'd call it Taxi Gone Wild

Practice for owning a BMW

Road hog? Zig zag going in and out of traffic, tail gating,( too close behind ,)cutting people up( overtaking and pulling back in too close)

"How would you describe" or "What would you call," not "How would you call."

UK driver here. I’d call it weaving or lane-hopping. However, there is a nuance here - if the road isn’t as densely packed as the illustration suggests, it could just be considered as being in the appropriate lane and accidentally undertaking other drivers who are hogging the wrong lanes.

Swimming, floating, being a menace to society

Weaving in and out of traffic Or Weaving through traffic

Weaving

I think the word you're looking for is "cutting" if you type traffic cutting in youtube you'll find videos of people driving like this. In the street racing community you'll hear "swimming" but those guys are straight up racing so it's a little more specific and a lot more aggressive.

Checkers (similar to jumps made in the game)

I would call this "braiding traffic".

As an American, cutting people off As a Mainer, "another fuckin masshole" 🤣

cutting

In Atlanta and urban NC I’ve heard it called “cutting up”

In New York we say cutting up

When the road gets tedious... go full Colin McRae

BMWing /s

Italian driving style

Haven’t seen it yet here but I’ve heard it called “cutting up” in traffic

I call it “Driving in Detroit with Ontario and Ohio drivers on the road”

Redlining

weaving in and out of traffic

Fun

Passing on the right.

I know what to call the driver.

In South Korea, we said it “칼치기”. It looks like a swinging knife.

Aggressive lane changing. 

Younger people and especially those who drive like this, may call this "cutting" or "cutting up" or "swimming"

"Weaving through lanes" weaving because of the motion the string makes when you weave string

Weaving/cutting through traffic is the most common way to describe it.

Weaving through traffic

Cutting someone off

Weaving

In chinese it is called S shape driving lol or snake style?

I call it “Boy Racering”. But that is idiolect.

Threading the needle

I call or most Americans call it cutting up

A technical word is careening, used like "they were careening in and out of traffic". I don't think the US has a slang term for it.

In California we call it swimming (usually only if talking positively about the activity)

In Australia we call it ‘driving like a cunt’.

It’s called “New Jersey”

"Weaving in and out of traffic" There is no single word term for this type of driving. Swerving can be used in place of weaving, but you have to specify the in and out of traffic. There may be words elsewhere but this is used in the US.

Most people would call it weaving i think, but my family calls it cowboy driving

American here. I call this my style of driving

Toronto.

A Darwin award contestant.

Being reckless while doing it is called “cutting up” and being smooth and not being as reckless is called “swimming”

I’ve almost exclusively heard these drivers being called a “Jabroni”

"Organ Donor". Because when you get your driver's license, you can opt in to the organ donor program, and that means if you need an organ you will be higher on the list than people without it, in exchange for when you die they will try to preserve your organs for use in other people. Those who drive like that are planning to meet their commitment on that far sooner than the rest of us.

Cutting up

when done well: weaving, swimming, cutting up, traffic surfing. If someone is obviously not a skilled driver and is attempting actual dangerous maneuvers then it would just be swerving

owe a lot of insurance speedrun any%

BMW

1) An idiot. 2) Still an idiot.

I have never heard the word hoon in my life.

Irresponsible and aggressive

I call that "weaving through traffic"

Trafic surfing

Reckless driving

The people in the left lane shouldnt be there, shit is fair game

There’s an internet slang term used nowadays between teenagers in the United States. It’s referred to as “cutting up” traffic, but this is specifically when doing it at extremely high speeds for the adrenaline rush as if it were a video game, not just changing lanes to be an ass

Bmw

"what would you call it"  Because you're looking for the correct noun to describe this type of driving, you need to ask "what". We would say that that driver is weaving in and out of traffic.

Aggressive driving

I like checkers, that’s a great description. I’d call that line is weaving, however I also see left lane camping, tailgating, driving in blind spots. The guy driving the red line is at least probably paying attention to what he’s doing.

This is called get off your phone in the left lane/ I hate Teslas in the left lane because you have eMPG and your cruise control is too damn good

"There go the Californians"

“Recklessly weaving through traffic” or “recklessly weaving in and out of traffic.” It is a type of “reckless driving.” You might also saying “cutting people off.” More casually…”driving like an a__hole” (not sure if I can use curse words here. Hopefully you can fill in the blanks) is very commonly what people say if you are talking amongst adults in a place you can use curse words. Or “jerk” if somewhere you shouldn’t say curse words. If you are telling a story to friends you might say something like, “And here comes this jerk, weaving in and out of traffic; cutting people off. He could have killed someone.” (For geographic context, I’m American.)

In South African English we call this person a ‘poes’.

I’d say “hellooo” with one flattened hand horizontal in the air. That’s how I’d call it.

cutting

Swerving

Reminds me of an old joke from the Flintstones: > Poor guy \[bus driver\] is about as punchy as they come. They had to retire him after his first week. Caught him weaving in heavy traffic. He wasn't moving. He was just sitting in his bus, weaving.

Illegal here. Weaving is against Colorado law now

swerving?

I'm in Canada and have heard it called "zigzaging through traffic"

lane splitting

stupid ass driving

in gen z(american) slang it is known as "cutting up". As you cut people off and weave in and of traffic.

lane switchin wit the paint drippin

If everyone is doing the same speed in all 3 lanes, im not sure, maybe efficency? /s

Wouldn't have to do this if the MFers weren't going the speed limit in the left lane.

I'm happy to learn it's called "checkers" in Russian, thank you

In India we just call this driving

I call this move "Romanian with BMW in leasing"

Don't be a weaver beaver.

I would say ‘hoon’ is outdated australasian slang. My dad said it in NZ but I don’t use it. I would agree with ‘weaving through traffic’ being a good phrase that hopefully most people would understand. Driving (and driving dangerously on the motorway) is too recent for there to be any solid consensus in different varieties of English around the globe.

Burnout 3 style. Thankfully its not Burnout 4 style...

In Albuquerque, NM specifically; you would be just fine calling this “driving”

‘Weaving in and out of traffic’ is correct (USA). Another good set of terms is ‘undertaking’ and ‘overtaking’. Going around those first few cars by moving into the 3rd lane (the “slow lane”) is called undertaking, and it’s dangerous, frowned upon, and in some places illegal. Overtaking is the opposite: passing someone via a faster lane (on their left…or on their right if you are driving in the UK etc)

braindead

**Swimming.** Its like a whole damn sport basically, there are skill levels. Bikers participate mostly too.

I’d call that an Audi driver

"That's how ya end up wrapped around a tree"

I call it "Sonuvabitch"

In British English I'd say either weaving through traffic or swerving through traffic. Weaving gives a sense of the manoeuvre being slower, more controlled or less dangerous than swerving.

Weavin' Stevens.

I think it's called lane splitting? Or filtering?

California style

In Australia, yeah, you'd call it hoon driving. In the UK you'd just call it shit driving, reckless driving, bad driving, etc. Of course, if you saw this and the driver was driving a Mercedes, BMW or Audi you might well simply joke, "Typical XXXXX driver," although no direct shade is intended to any of you considerate Merc/BMW/Audi drivers. It's possible (I'm afraid) that the fact you have a specific term for it in Russian means that you have a wilder, more reckless driving situation over there. You simply don't see driving like this on a UK motorway enough for it to have a specific term.

Vietnamese average driver

THATS JUST CRAZY 😭😭😭

I am from Germany and i would call it "drängeln"

The “ “ manoeuvre because you’ll immediately stop existing with 1 mistake

Slalom

Stupid. It will be gene pool corrected soon.

In my country we call it "Sewing" lol

More specifically, the maneuver of passing someone on the inside like that is known as undertaking, as opposed to the more normal overtaking when you pass someone.

Weaving is appropriate, but I've heard it called "flossing". To a non native speaker that's probably confusing. Consider it slang.

Depends on where you’re from, in parts of the US we call it “cutting up” I can’t speak for Canada, England, or anywhere else though.

I was never able to perform this type of maneuvers, my survival skills are too high.

Haciendo corte patelito 🇩🇴

Cutting, or swimming

If it’s without pause, I call it slaloming.

in turkish we say scissoring 😭😭😭

The kids nowadays call it “cutting up”

Felony reckless driving, at least 2 points on license, increased insurance rates, and hopefully at least a little prison time (unlikely unless somebody gets hurt). But description is “weaving in and out of traffic”

Not sure it’s common, but we often call it BMW style of driving.

I call it "playing Pole Position" after the name of an old video game.

Some say its swerving in and out of traffic, different answers vary depending on what country/state/province you’re in

American here. I would call this "weaving in and out of traffic." One small point regarding your question: we would say "what would you call that type" instead of "how would you call that type." The Russian idiom is different -- как rather than что.

A fun drinking game

Erratic, hazardous, dangerous, reckless, inconsiderate, aggressive, violent.

I think "reckless" is honestly the best word for it, if you want a single word. Like others have said I would call that pattern "weaving in and out".

I would call it weaving

Probably "weaving." A slang term for doing this at high speeds would be "swimming."

Cutting or chopping is pretty popular in AAVE

in places like NYC and some other parts of the tri state area it’s called “cutting up”, not sure if this is also used elsewhere. i think it might be a way to describe it in LA as well, but i’ve heard it the most on the east coast

You might call it "weaving in and out of traffic" or "lane hopping" You should ask "what would you call that type of reckless driving?" although "how" is close and i can understand you, "how" is more for questions such as "how do you like your coffee" or "how are you?" more asking about the state of something rather than what an object or action is.

Jazz driving

I’d call it hogging the passing lane

As a Russian, I have never heard of this type of "checkers" in my life!

Some younger people would also call it cutting traffic

Too fast, too furious

Cutting up - Florida

in Mandarin we call it 蛇行, snake movement or snake driving.

swimming/cutting up

I call it “driving like a Colombian”

"what would you call..." Not "How would you call..." It's a very common mistake

It's called "(recklessly) weaving in and out of the traffic".

Weaving, or “weaving through traffic” named after the back and forward motion of a weaving loom. The act of swerving across close in front of another driver, particularly if the other driver has to brake, I’d refer to as “cutting someone up”. Weaving may or may not also mean cutting people up depending on how tight the gaps the shit driver forces themselves into are.

Cutting in front of someone in the next lane to get around of the car in front of you, with not much clearance, is called hole-shotting in the US. I think it's a pool (game) reference. It's viewed as a sign of being a dangerous hothead.

Ohio

Cutting up

Driving Erratically