goose-step

verb

Definition of goose-stepnext
as in to trudge

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Recent Examples of goose-step 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 On some milestone birthdays, North Korea’s military holds huge parades with goose-stepping soldiers and powerful weapons capable of targeting the U.S. and South Korea. — Jiwon Song, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Jan. 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
  1. trudge
  2. stomp
  3. stamp
  4. march
  5. tread
  6. step
  7. plod
  8. parade
Verb
  • During the last quarter century, Mia has watched the monarch population figures trudge downward, part of a larger disappearance in which butterfly numbers in the United States have plummeted by 20 percent.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 July 2026
  • Rodrigo De Paul was caught ball-watching as Ricardo Rodriguez offered himself for the pass, trudging back into a shape and letting the run slip through.
    — Stuart James, New York Times, 12 July 2026
Definition of trudge
Verb
  • Cece got out of bed, put on a pair of fuzzy pink slippers, and stomped to her mother’s office.
    — Jessica Contrera, New Yorker, 13 July 2026
  • There was so much color, all these beautiful headdresses, and the male dancers were stomping their legs to mimic the drums.
    — Lale Arikoglu, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 July 2026
Definition of stomp
Verb
  • This means that an election official did not stamp the bottom right corner of the ballot before handing it over to the voter.
    — Angela George, Sioux Falls Argus Leader, 8 July 2026
  • Of course, controlling shareholders are not cartons of milk stamped with expiration dates.
    — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 6 July 2026
Definition of stamp
Verb
  • People in costumes marched alongside floats with advertisements and extravagantly patriotic decorations.
    — Nolan Rogalski, The Providence Journal, 5 July 2026
  • Ben felt that his biggest contribution to Civil Rights would not be marching in the streets, but instead demonstrating his capabilities to others in influential positions through performance, negotiation, and results.
    — Doug Melville, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026
Definition of march
Verb
  • By season 3, however, Little House had confidently tread into the darker, less savory aspects of frontier life, so the series creatives decided to show that sometimes, not even Christmas was sacred.
    — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 3 July 2026
  • Between bars closing and those that remain having to tread more lightly, Palace is in a state of constant evolution to keep up.
    — Delia Rose Sauer, Miami Herald, 1 July 2026
Definition of tread
Verb
  • Kansas City Royals slugger Jac Caglianone stepped onto the national stage during the 2026 T-Mobile Home Run Derby on Monday night.
    — Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 14 July 2026
  • All the Spain players move towards goal and Austria follow suit, but Baena arrows a straight pass that Mikel Oyarzabal, the only player to step backwards, heads wide.
    — Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 14 July 2026
Definition of step
Verb
  • Unscary, plodding, dreary with a cast of characters that isn’t dwindling in terms of body count, but certainly in terms of my enjoyment and respect.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 5 July 2026
  • Even the special effects emerge as less than spectacular — especially since Jeannot Szwarc’s plodding direction affords ample time for one to sit there and figure out just how they were accomplished.
    — Arthur Knight, HollywoodReporter, 25 June 2026
Definition of plod
Verb
  • Maradona and Messi have paraded through Kolkata on multiple summer tours, mobbed by thousands at the airport and on the streets, hailed as gods coming down to earth.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, New Yorker, 16 July 2026
  • Minutes earlier, the players paraded around Azteca Stadium — traditionally an impenetrable fortress — to applaud El Tri fans with tears in their eyes.
    — Eduard Cauich, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2026
Definition of parade

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“Goose-step.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/goose-step. Accessed 18 Jul. 2026.

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