promenading

verb

present participle of promenade
as in walking

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for promenading
  1. walking
  2. parading
  3. striding
  4. treading
  5. ambulating
  6. strolling
  7. marching
  8. traipsing
Verb
  • For Jill Little, the director of YPP, the program has been a steadying force in walking alongside the girls through the uncertainty of pregnancy, childbirth and raising a child.
    — Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 24 July 2026
  • Video from a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter showed a large group of protesters walking down a street Wednesday evening.
    — Marin Scott, NBC news, 23 July 2026
Definition of walking
Verb
  • Seleção fans essentially took over part of the American Dream mall next to MetLife Stadium and turned it into more of a Brazilian Carnival-like scene with samba dancers, drummers and fans parading down the shopping center.
    — Ben Church, CNN Money, 6 July 2026
  • Images of Merlin parading through Mexico City, wearing a Mexican national team jersey — and socks — as thousands of fans celebrated, quickly went viral, racking up millions of views across social media.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 15 June 2026
Definition of parading
Verb
  • The first is now striding toward the final; the second is out of a job.
    — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 17 July 2026
  • The sculpture included Teddy mounted on a striding horse with two lackeys walking on either side.
    — Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 10 July 2026
Definition of striding
Verb
  • That’s someone treading open water who has figured out that the only way not to drown is to never stop kicking.
    — Phil Mattingly, CNN Money, 16 July 2026
  • But like its tenacious relic-hunting heroine, the enduring property is always treading new ground.
    — Matt Cabral, Entertainment Weekly, 15 July 2026
Definition of treading
Verb
  • Common symptoms of heat stroke include confusion, difficulty ambulating, collapse and even seizures.
    — Zuri Primos, Kansas City Star, 12 June 2026
  • Why are my feet useful merely for ambulating my body to and fro while footballers can play with their feet and a ball and thrill crowds to no end?
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 13 May 2026
Definition of ambulating
Verb
  • Could Leonardo da Vinci, alongside imagery of visitors strolling through art exhibitions, become the face of future euro banknotes?
    — Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 23 July 2026
  • Now the presence of the onetime collaborator with Quincy Jones and Marvin Hamlisch is around for perpetuity, waiting to be musically tickled by anyone strolling past.
    — Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 23 July 2026
Definition of strolling
Verb
  • The sounds of the angry crowd were coming closer—as if an entire marketplace, shouting and bargaining, was marching toward us like a swarm of bees.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 21 July 2026
  • Global energy prices are marching higher after a ninth consecutive night of US strikes against Iran.
    — Hanna Ziady, CNN Money, 20 July 2026
Definition of marching
Verb
  • Over spare guitars, Madonna retraces the days of traipsing about the Lower East Side when the rent was overdue.
    — Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 3 July 2026
  • But birding at this landfill does not mean traipsing through the trash.
    — Kate Wong, Scientific American, 14 May 2026
Definition of traipsing
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