"He walked with a limp, swaying to the left then right, left then right throughout." Correction: "He walked with a limp, swaying from one side to another" Then a man from behind ran surpassed him and someone in front ran against him." Correction: "While he was being overtaken by a man coming from behind, he bumped into someone in front of him." Supposing he is walking in a track field, and then someone faster came behind him, take over him, how do you say this? Someone ran surpassed him? You can use the word 'overtake' or 'pass' "I was running too slow, so everyone passed/overtook me. And if someone is not running anti-clockwise, but running clockwise in a track field, so, it's opposite direction to everyone else, how do you say this? Runs opposite to people? "Everyone was running in the same direction except Peter. For some reason he was running in the opposite direction."

Passed him- the runners passed him, or you can say overtook or ran past. Lapped him- he was running so slowly that the other runners overtook him, ran around the track and then lapped him. Another runner decided to run in the opposite direction. Halfway round the track we met in the middle, waved, passed each other and kept on running.

The way I would solve this is be more descriptive with what you say before. this isn't the most elegant way to solve the issue so perhaps you can take some more ideas from other contributors as well: ex. He turned on the track and a man (describe briefly) behind him ran past. He watched for a moment, and another man (describe) running the opposite way passed and sped away further behind him. (is the man surprised that the other is going opposite of him or is this normal?)

Should be “left to right”. You can say “someone ran and surpassed him” or “someone surpassed him as they ran” or “someone surpassed him.” You can say he ran in the opposite direction as everyone else.