Families of planar curves that are neither parallel nor intersect

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A family of rectangular hyperbolas of the form $xy = k$ (e.g. $xy = 2$, $xy = 3$ etc) consists of curves that are neither parallel nor intersect. $k$ is any constant.

Similar families seem to be $xy^2 = k$, $y = e^{(k/x)}$ and so on

$1)$ Is there some other property common to these curves?

$2)$ Can they be regarded as non-Euclidean curves in a plane?