STRIDES Synonyms: 64 Similar and Opposite Words

strides 1 of 2

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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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 Out with a potential love interest one evening, in a packed Manhattan comedy club, Tess is startled when Alex strides up to the microphone. — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2025

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

Recent Examples of Synonyms for strides

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The two women performing a song flee to safety as Montes reaches the bimah, spins around and marches back down the aisle, this time escorted from behind by a security guard, while furiously pounding the air with his fist and ranting.

— Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 15 Aug. 2026
Bishop Moore marches down the field thanks to a facemask penalty and a 29-yard pass from Blake McCullough to Drew Follett.

— Buddy Collings, The Orlando Sentinel, 14 Aug. 2026

Definition of marches

Noun

The Mamdani administration has taken encouraging steps, including offering free naloxone by mail through its Just in Case campaign and investing $12 million to train and employ 500 additional peer specialists.

— Joel Teron, New York Daily News, 31 Aug. 2026
That combination—a hard deadline six years out and a Congress that can’t agree on next steps—is precisely what Shedden says is pushing clients toward the exits early, even though claiming at 62 locks in a permanently smaller monthly check for life.

— Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of steps

Noun

Fast forward to this year’s Spring Festival Gala, and Unitree again impressed the crowd with its robots’ more advanced moves that included backflips and leaps over platforms.

— Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 21 Aug. 2026
The industry is moving towards prevention, longevity, and highly individualized care, with AI and biotechnology poised to deliver unprecedented performance leaps tailored to biological differences.

— Laia Farran Graves, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of leaps

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Defensively, Bett anchors the interior line, while sophomores Joseph Mbatchou and Jeremiah McCloud look poised for second-year jumps after promising freshman seasons.

— Edgar Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 Aug. 2026
Additionally, using higher-frequency ultraviolet light, scientists are able to create larger energy jumps and measure them more frequently, allowing time tracking in much finer increments, thereby increasing precision.

— Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 21 Aug. 2026

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