goose-step

verb

Definition of goose-stepnext
as in to trudge

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Recent Examples of goose-step In response, Herrera suggested the goose-stepping video was a joke. — Lauren Green, The Washington Examiner, 8 Mar. 2026 Columns of soldiers were seen goose-stepping under floodlights with fighter jets roaring overhead. — Will Ripley, CNN Money, 26 Feb. 2026 As its goose-stepping military honor guards marched past and troops in combat uniforms and gear raced to their vehicles, jets and helicopters screeched past overhead. — Ann Scott Tyson, Christian Science Monitor, 3 Sep. 2025 Variety, The Wrap, the Hollywood Reporter, the Los Angeles Times, and others goose-step to the Daily Worker, Izvestia, or Pravda. — Armond White, National Review, 2 Feb. 2024 There are teenage call girls, pregnant adulterers, online strippers, goose-stepping racists, topless caterers, feuding relatives and men who cut off their manhood. — Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for goose-step
  1. trudge
  2. stomp
  3. stamp
  4. march
  5. tread
  6. step
  7. plod
  8. parade
Verb
  • Why trudge through movie history, turning over every stone and every wound, in a nearly 500-page memoir?
    — Maddie Connors, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2026
  • The ground level would sink, the water would seep up, and the horses’ hooves would trudge through mud.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of trudge
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  • The answer isn’t between stomping the gas pedal or leaving the car parked.
    — Bob Ackerman, Forbes.com, 6 Oct. 2026
  • Handclaps, stomping percussion and a communal chorus create the kind of infectious energy that naturally gets people moving.
    — qygwork, Billboard, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of stomp
Verb
  • The community nurse hadn’t even bothered to rewrite it, and the polite doctor simply stamped under her amendments.
    — Alicja Turczyk, The Dial, 29 Sep. 2026
  • Drivers sometimes made their own, carved from wood, stamped onto metal, the numbers mounted on screens, or painted onto boards.
    — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2026
Definition of stamp
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  • Bidh admitted as much, begrudgingly saying the STC would coordinate with local authorities to defend their land if the Houthis marched south, though maintaining it wouldn’t directly coordinate with the PLC itself.
    — Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 4 Oct. 2026
  • Braving 100-degree heat, protesters marched through Culver City demanding local media corporations do their part to defend democracy.
    — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2026
Definition of march
Verb
  • 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
  • Trump treads carefully The leaders last met in Beijing just four months ago, and could meet twice more later this year.
    — Aamer Madhani, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2026
Definition of tread
Verb
  • The combination of Rykman's extended jams, psychedelic light show and joyous energy made the concert feel less like simply watching a band perform and more like temporarily stepping away for the normal day-to-day.
    — Steve Spaleta, Space.com, 3 Oct. 2026
  • Charlotte Gainsbourg stepped onto the runway to sing, adding an intimate finish to the monumental setting.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of step
Verb
  • 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
  • An hour into the match, Villa Park — tense as the home side plodded against Leeds United a goal down — broke out in excitement.
    — Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of plod
Verb
  • That is because Lula, Brazil’s current president and campaigning candidate, had been parading the centre of Rio just a few hundred meters away from the port.
    — Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Inside a Cantonese restaurant with a view of the foggy San Francisco night, a place picked by my oh-so sophisticated local cousin Noreen, plates piled with orange chicken and honey walnut shrimp paraded past me on the lazy Susan in the center.
    — Daniel Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of parade

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“Goose-step.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/goose-step. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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