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 sweet video, a curly-haired Swift could be seen marching around a room while wearing a red and white top, which had a pair of cowboy boots on it, as well as a denim skirt with a red and white hem, white tights, cowboy boots and a red and white cowboy hat. —

Becca Longmire, PEOPLE, 5 June 2026 Activists were marching through the Bronzeville neighborhood on Wednesday evening to raise awareness for the dozens of unsolved cases of missing and murdered Black and Brown women and girls in Chicago. —

Shardaa Gray, CBS News, 3 June 2026 Eco effort The hotel is marching along a path to zero-landfill waste, helped in part by reductions in single-use plastics and paper materials, plus a swift recycling program. —

Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 June 2026 Organizers of Rome’s annual Pride parade have barred Italy’s only Jewish LGBTQIA+ organization from marching with a float at this year’s June 20 parade, although they are still allowed to participate in the march itself. —

Simone Somekh, Sun Sentinel, 1 June 2026 The 1970 opening ceremony of the games showed the various teams marching into the soccer stadium to the sound of drums. —

Time Staff, Time, 29 May 2026 Everyone attending — whether marching up Fifth Ave. —

Elliot Cosgrove, New York Daily News, 29 May 2026 ProPublica interviewed one Civil Rights activist, Charles Mauldin, who was 17 years old when police tear gassed him and hundreds of others marching for voting rights in Selma, Alabama. —

Lisa Song, ProPublica, 27 May 2026 The Rangers were marching toward that goal when conflict bubbled back to the surface. —

Vincent Z. Mercogliano, New York Times, 21 May 2026

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Before Kaia Gerber and Olivia Rodrigo became inseparable from their Repetto ballet pumps, Gainsbourg was striding around in the brand’s lace-up Zizi style–now the shoe of choice for art school girls (and a certain Marc Jacobs).

— Olivia Allen, Vogue, 4 June 2026
At the French Open Tuesday, the four-time Grand Slam champion staged an outfit reveal once again, striding out for her first-round match against Germany’s Laura Siegemund wearing a black corset and matching pleated, cascading skirt that skimmed over the clay.

— Ava Wallace, New York Times, 28 May 2026