footslogging

verb

present participle of footslog
as in trudging

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for footslogging
  1. trudging
  2. tramping
  3. trampling
  4. wandering
  5. plodding
  6. clumping
  7. stomping
  8. hobbling
Verb
  • Hawke remembers his 19-year-old self trudging through snowy Alaska for White Fang.
    — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 18 Sep. 2026
  • Half of the game's length is swallowed up by me trudging from point A to point B while characters yap endlessly about the current goings-on.
    — Gabriel Zamora, PC Magazine, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of trudging
Verb
  • Plant-eating dinos that looked like huge, armored lizards left those footprints while tramping near the coastline of a vast Western Interior Seaway that extended into Colorado.
    — Kristen Kidd, Denver Post, 22 Sep. 2026
  • Imagine The Goonies with a half dozen adults tramping through the caves.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
Definition of tramping
Verb
  • The 307-mile Great Redwood Trail planned along a defunct Northern California rail line is colliding with the Wailaki tribe, as members decry hikers trampling ancestral villages and graves.
    — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2026
  • Their biggest obstacle is that their collectivist vision has never worked without trampling on civil liberties.
    — Nolan Finley The Detroit News, Arkansas Online, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of trampling
Verb
  • It is said that Hannah’s ghost is fond of wandering Spring Hill Road.
    — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 22 Oct. 2026
  • This formation process also means that brown dwarfs are cosmic loners, wandering the darkness of space alone, bereft of the light of a parent star.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 19 Oct. 2026
Definition of wandering
Verb
  • The slow-burn storytelling reflects the characters’ plodding childhoods, utterly lacking in carefree play.
    — Heller McAlpin, Christian Science Monitor, 16 Oct. 2026
  • The film is instead, in its strange and sometimes plodding manner, a call to simply sit and think about the contradictions of human character.
    — Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of plodding
Verb
  • Proteins and blood cells Proteins and DNA can gather on plastic surfaces, and lysozyme, a common test protein, also began clumping into aggregates there.
    — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Keep the package sealed after each use to prevent sheets from clumping or breaking down early.
    — Ryan Brennan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of clumping
Verb
  • But wrap a play in too much homespun folksiness and the thing starts to feel both suffocating and, despite all the driving tunes and stomping choreography in the world, suffocated.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2026
  • The answer isn’t between stomping the gas pedal or leaving the car parked.
    — Bob Ackerman, Forbes.com, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of stomping
Verb
  • The Republican candidate has been hobbling through the race, with lackluster fundraising and a long history of personal and legal scandals casting a pall over his candidacy.
    — Matthew Choi, Washington Post, 8 Oct. 2026
  • More than doubling the cost of the latest iPhone might risk pricing out customers and hobbling Apple’s ubiquity, analysts suggested.
    — Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of hobbling
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“Footslogging.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/footslogging. Accessed 27 Oct. 2026.

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