goose-stepping

verb

present participle of goose-step
as in stomping

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for goose-stepping
  1. stomping
  2. trudging
  3. stamping
  4. marching
  5. plodding
  6. treading
  7. striding
  8. stepping
Verb
  • Bass frequently swam beneath docks where workers were pounding with hammers or sailors were stomping in boats.
    — Morris Gresham, Outdoor Life, 9 Nov. 2026
  • Everyone’s favorite kaiju is stomping its way back to the box office.
    — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 6 Nov. 2026
Definition of stomping
Verb
  • There were tent camps on both sides of the border, caravans of people trudging through Central America and concerns about newcomers overwhelming social services.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 29 Oct. 2026
  • Hawke remembers his 19-year-old self trudging through snowy Alaska for White Fang.
    — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of trudging
Verb
  • When Louise would remember the show decades later, the audience was always so electric that the room exploded into stamping feet and pounding fists.
    — Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 18 Oct. 2026
  • All this suggests that stopping illicit distillation will mean finding new attacks before stamping them out.
    — Peter Hall, Scientific American, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of stamping
Verb
  • This winter could be exceptionally busy for rescuers if — as forecasted — the Super El Niño brewing in the Pacific sends a steady parade of atmospheric river storms marching into Los Angeles County’s highest peak.
    — Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2026
  • The North Siders marching down Diversey Parkway on a recent morning are well aware their electrical grid is nearing its breaking point.
    — Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 9 Nov. 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
Verb
  • Sent from pillar to post – to the bank’s Accounts, Payments and Claims treading dark puddled basement corridors and joining seemingly interminable lines.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Videos also show survivors jumping from a rocky island and swimming to Coast Guard rescue swimmers treading rough seas.
    — David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 29 Sep. 2026
Definition of treading
Verb
  • 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
Verb
  • Villains like Ted Bundy are imagined to be relatively invulnerable to pain, even in a scenario as basic as stepping barefoot on a shard of glass.
    — Paul Bloom, New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2026
  • Kristaps Porzingis will not be stepping on the basketball court for the foreseeable future.
    — Ryan Morik OutKick, FOXNews.com, 6 Nov. 2026
Definition of stepping
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“Goose-stepping.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/goose-stepping. Accessed 14 Nov. 2026.

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