I tried to looking at lower-dimensional cases:
For ##n=2## we have
$$(x(t),y(t))=(cos(t),sin(t))$$
For ##n=3## we define two orthogonal unit vectors ##\vec{a}## and ##\vec{b}## that are orthogonal to ##\vec{u}##, leading to
$$(x(t),y(t),z(t))=(cos(t)(a_1,a_2,a_3)+sin(t)(b_1,b_2,b_3))$$
It seems...