STRIDES Synonyms: 64 Similar and Opposite Words

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verb

present tense third-person singular of stride

as in marches

to move along with a steady regular step especially in a group a gang of armed men strode into the bank and approached the teller

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strides

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noun

plural of stride

as in steps

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Hansen strides into frame and asks the cowering man what his fate should be. — ABC News, 23 Sep. 2026 Coach Chilton strides in, strikingly different from the coach Rebecca’s used to having stride into her office. — Hannah Abraham, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026 Ed Sheeran strides to Taylor Swift wedding Ed Sheeran, clad in a bright aqua blue suit, arrived holding hands with wife Cherry Seaborn. — Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 4 July 2026 Your father strides into the dining room, harried, shiny black hair parted to one side, his fingers buttoning the cuffs of his starched white collared shirt. — Literary Hub, 25 June 2026 Nick Sirianni strides across the asphalt at a breezy pace, seemingly as serene as an on-the-job NFL head coach can ever be. — Michael Silver, New York Times, 16 June 2026 Throughout, the show’s trademark surreality and sense of play allowed Sweeney to act out massive emotional swings and to edge into the absurd, as in a sequence where Cassie strides through Los Angeles, towering over buildings and dominating the men below. — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 10 June 2026 Mark Bradford strides by with a beneficent smile — towering over everyone, including AI art maker Refik Anadol. — Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2026 But perhaps no rock god ever went full Heathcliff the way Cliff Richard did for this 1996 musical, a stage production (with songs by John Farrar and Tim Rice) that re-creates scenes from the novel while Richard, as Heathcliff, strides through like a lordly narrator-protagonist. — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 16 Feb. 2026

Noun

Bolt takes shorter strides than a human runner but makes up for it with a much faster stride rhythm. — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 13 Feb. 2026

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New York, August 26th, 1970 National Organization for Women President Betty Friedan marches with fellow feminists on the 50th anniversary of the passing of the Nineteenth Amendment which granted American women full suffrage.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2026
In the now-iconic clip, Marion, then 4, opens the door behind Kelly and marches into the room.

— Victoria Edel, PEOPLE, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of marches

Noun

The other two, Descript and Resemble AI, had taken steps to make nonconsensual cloning harder.

— Muskaan Arshad, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2026
Yet over the past year, Netanyahu has taken steps that angered Trump and others in his administration, including strikes in Lebanon and Gaza that undercut his regional peace efforts.

— Tal Shalev, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2026

Definition of steps

Noun

And the leaps of the people in that book generally came from connecting people more closely to their computers.

— Caitlin Huston, HollywoodReporter, 19 Oct. 2026
Some of these leaps were positive—such as for iron and hemoglobin levels, likely because monthly bleeding stops, Alon says.

— Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of leaps

Noun

Mahomes sprinted to his right to avoid pressure and, a split-second before falling out of bounds, heaved a pass that somehow hit Tyreek Hill in stride for 48 yards.

— Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 23 Oct. 2026
In industries like plumbing and construction, employees often carry company cards to buy fuel and supplies, while office staff sort through receipts to check that spending stays within bounds.

— Camila Grigera Naón, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2026

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