GOOSE-STEP Synonyms: 21 Similar and Opposite Words

goose-step

verb

Definition of goose-step

as in to trudge

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Recent Examples of goose-step In response, Herrera suggested the goose-stepping video was a joke. — Lauren Green, The Washington Examiner, 8 Mar. 2026 Columns of soldiers were seen goose-stepping under floodlights with fighter jets roaring overhead. — Will Ripley, CNN Money, 26 Feb. 2026 As its goose-stepping military honor guards marched past and troops in combat uniforms and gear raced to their vehicles, jets and helicopters screeched past overhead. — Ann Scott Tyson, Christian Science Monitor, 3 Sep. 2025 Variety, The Wrap, the Hollywood Reporter, the Los Angeles Times, and others goose-step to the Daily Worker, Izvestia, or Pravda. — Armond White, National Review, 2 Feb. 2024 There are teenage call girls, pregnant adulterers, online strippers, goose-stepping racists, topless caterers, feuding relatives and men who cut off their manhood. — Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2023

Recent Examples of Synonyms for goose-step

Verb

Millions of years after a massive Tyrannosaurus rex trudged through a prehistoric mudflat, paleontologists can finally follow in its footsteps.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 21 Sep. 2026
The Falcons trudged through another difficult afternoon offensively, but unlike Week 1, their defense fell short, too.

— Daniel Flick, AJC.com, 20 Sep. 2026

Definition of trudge

Verb

Letter writers recalled how Paden saved his father’s life when a cow nearly stomped him to death in a field, after the elder Paden came between the cow and her calf.

— Glenn Rice, Kansas City Star, 21 Sep. 2026
The Bulldogs visit Arkansas, which just got stomped by Utah, to open SEC play Saturday.

— Tyler Estep, AJC.com, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of stomp

Verb

That car became a rally staple, training a generation of drivers, including the French legend Jean Ragnotti, and stamping its double white stripe into motorsport folklore.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 24 Sep. 2026
As tales of touring and recording with Diddy in other episodes fail to lead to a query about what the Bad Boy founder has been up to since 2024, the doc feels time-stamped and a few considerably eventful years old for the people who come up.

— Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2026

Definition of stamp

Verb

The Knights found their stride after the interception, marching down the field for 44 yards and relying on their ground game, with Watson, Landen Chambers, and Jenkins sharing the load.

— Matt Murschel, The Orlando Sentinel, 20 Sep. 2026
On Thursday, demonstrators, mostly women, in the Ekurhuleni district where the bodies were found, marched in the streets, donning black.

— Rael Ombuor The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 19 Sep. 2026

Definition of march

Verb

Trump treads carefully The leaders last met in Beijing just four months ago, and could meet twice more later this year.

— Aamer Madhani, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2026
From their perspective, governments have an important responsibility to tread carefully when denying entry to migrants and especially when deporting them.

— J. Toby Reiner, The Conversation, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of tread

Verb

Into the breach stepped Ashkan Karbasfrooshan, a Montreal technology entrepreneur and founder of Watch Mojo, a pop culture brand with 26 million subscribers on YouTube.

— Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2026
The mom-of-two—who shares 9-year-old twins Ella and Alexander with husband George Clooney—could be seen shaking hands with students, addressing a group of children, and stepping outside a building with a beverage in hand.

— Lara Walsh, InStyle, 19 Sep. 2026

Definition of step

Verb

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
An hour into the match, Villa Park — tense as the home side plodded against Leeds United a goal down — broke out in excitement.

— Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of plod

Verb

The clothes, which always carried an element of tongue-in-cheek, paraded this sense of an triumphal ascent as surely as the Europeans had done with their get-ups in the late seventeenth century.

— Lucy Sante, Vanity Fair, 21 Sep. 2026
That’s when the party moves beyond the clubhouse, parading down the Canyon of Heroes and throughout the heart and soul of New York City.

— Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 15 Sep. 2026

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