The phrase "a loop of the river" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a bend or curve in a river's course, often highlighting its geographical features.
Example: "The hikers enjoyed a scenic view as they reached the top of the hill, overlooking a loop of the river below."
Alternatives: "a bend in the river" or "a curve of the river".
Gainsborough, regarded by many as the father of modern English landscape, was born in peaceful Sudbury, set in a loop of the river Stour and surrounded by the oldest continuously grazed fields in England.
The town and castle occupy a loop of the River Coquet, less than a mile from England's north-east coast.
The castle stands precipitously above a loop of the River North Esk, which protects it on three sides.
The town and its castle occupied a loop of the River Coquet.
(The mines were bordered on three sides by a loop of the River Tamar, since 936 the traditional boundary between Devon and Cornwall.
Fribourg was sited on a loop of the entrenched Sarine River where a key trade route crossed the river; Bern was located on the easily defended great bend of the Aare.
"It's a loop of the overture," he said.
Branching off Forest Road 10 downstream of Reservoir 2, Forest Roads 12 and 14 form a loop south of the river.
Just south of Novodevichy, within the large loop of the river and facing the Vorobyëvy Hills, is the sports complex known as Luzhniki Park, dominated by the huge football (soccer) stadium formerly known as Central Lenin Stadium (built 1955 56).
Spurring the market on its way, this part of the east end, which spreads for 840 hectares around the eastern Cuningar Loop of the river Clyde, has been under the remit of Clyde Gateway since 2009, a government-funded urban regeneration company set up when the Games was won, to deal with the bounty that is supposed to follow such sporting mega-events.
It lies on the right bank of the Meuse River along a loop in the river in a depression between two ridges.
