GOOSE-STEPPING Synonyms: 21 Similar and Opposite Words

goose-stepping

verb

present participle of goose-step

as in stomping

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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

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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

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All this suggests that stopping illicit distillation will mean finding new attacks before stamping them out.

— Peter Hall, Scientific American, 7 Oct. 2026
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

Definition of stamping

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But this month, the most violent demonstrations in years — and tough policing — have raised concern about riots overshadowing hundreds of thousands of peaceful demonstrators marching against rising living costs and poor conditions in schools.

— ABC News, ABC News, 21 Oct. 2026
State workers gathered in front of the California Department of Human Resources headquarters before marching to the state Capitol.

— Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of marching

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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

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Nina nodded and looked across the restaurant to watch two tall women, flight attendants, striding resolutely through the concourse, their legs in perfect rhythm.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2026
Rossi is deeply inspired by Umberto Boccioni’s Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, the Futurist sculpture of a figure striding forward, its body fragmented into aerodynamic forms that suggest speed and movement.

— Alison S. Cohn, Vogue, 27 Sep. 2026

Definition of striding

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At first glance, the surface appears solid, but stepping onto a quaking bog feels like walking on a vast, trembling waterbed.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2026
Meanwhile, Young has dealt with addiction and mental health issues, which contributed to her stepping away from music to recover and come back stronger after collapsing on stage at All Things Go in 2025.

— Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 15 Oct. 2026

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