MARCHING Synonyms: 85 Similar and Opposite Words

marching

verb

present participle of march

as in striding

to move along with a steady regular step especially in a group the band had to practice for hours to be able to march in perfect step

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as in progressing

to move forward along a course bleary-eyed commuters marching off to the train station for the morning commute

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Recent Examples of marching In the House, Democrats were marching toward control after defeating six Republicans in key battleground races. — Arkansas Online, 4 Nov. 2026 If John Lewis were marching today from Selma to Montgomery, Mike Collins would be grabbing a billy club. — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2026 Hundreds of students are marching daily and riot police are on the scene. — Sarah Gidick, HollywoodReporter, 3 Nov. 2026 And the state’s 67 county elections supervisors are marching in lockstep to defend the integrity of the vote. — Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, The Orlando Sentinel, 1 Nov. 2026 Blasting local officials for failing to protect synagogues and classrooms, Terrell is marching federal prosecutors and the FBI into cities like New York and Detroit to confront rising hate crimes and enforce civil rights protections. — Staff, FOXNews.com, 29 Oct. 2026 Presley Ann/Getty Images Huerta kept a busy schedule, marching in protests and speaking in cities across the country about race, poverty, LGBTQ+ and women's rights on behalf of her foundation. — CBS News, 28 Oct. 2026 The sea of 100,000 people marching behind them was a wide mix of union members, students, leftists and others unhappy with Macron. — Michael Finnegan, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2026 The Dolphins started quickly, marching 76 yards on seven plays and taking their first lead in any game this season on Willis' 7-yard touchdown pass to Douglas. — ABC News, 25 Oct. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for marching

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

Proctor missed last week’s game but has been steadily progressing this week.

— Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 6 Nov. 2026
Carter recommended resistance training, such as free weights, weight machines, resistance bands or body-weight exercises like push-ups, two to three times weekly, progressing gradually to a higher intensity to build more muscle.

— NBC news, NBC news, 4 Nov. 2026

Definition of progressing

Verb

If the idea of doing surgery on a raw turkey gives you a stress rash, ask your butcher to do it—even at the supermarket.

— Andy Baraghani, Bon Appetit Magazine, 5 Nov. 2026
Even while every utopia contains the seeds of its opposite, so too does any dystopia provide, even briefly or contingently, intimations of a different way of doing things.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Nov. 2026

Definition of doing

Verb

Marco Gonzalez, an attorney representing the developers, said Western National believes the city has been regularly creating new roadblocks to keep the project from proceeding.

— Barbara Henry, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Nov. 2026
Johnson said construction is proceeding apace at IQMP, with PsiQuantum set to open its building early next year.

— Robert Channick, Chicago Tribune, 6 Nov. 2026

Definition of proceeding

Verb

Important this year is the image of the brilliant yellow daffodil, of which the city plans to plant 250,000 bulbs in the coming months.

— John Ramos, CBS News, 8 Nov. 2026
This time around, their performance arrived on the tail of North American and European legs of their Reality Awaits tour, which will bring them to Mexico, South America, and Australia in the coming months.

— Hattie Lindert, Pitchfork, 8 Nov. 2026

Definition of coming

Verb

Under those conditions, forging a digital signature becomes mathematically no more difficult than attacking an unpadded system.

— Muskan Bhatia, Interesting Engineering, 6 Nov. 2026
The results again were heartening, with Conwell at times forging a spirited undersized backcourt chemistry with starting point guard Davion Mitchell, and at other times injecting a vigor into the second unit with Pelle Larsson.

— Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 6 Nov. 2026

Definition of forging

Verb

The officers encountered a man who was holding a large knife, and the man made threats before advancing toward the officers, DA Kevin Steele said in a news release.

— Joe Brandt, CBS News, 7 Nov. 2026
The space agency is advancing nuclear electric propulsion projects and fission surface power designs.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 7 Nov. 2026