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going the route

going the route is the present participle and gerund of go the route.

Meaning of go the route

Verb

go the route (third-person singular simple present goes the route, present participle going the route, simple past went the route, past participle gone the route)

  1. To pitch for an entire game, without a relief pitcher.
    • It was like old times: Grove, Earnshaw, and Walberg went the route seven times in the next 13 games.2015, Norman L. Macht, The Grand Old Man of Baseball

Questions about going the route

What is going the route the present participle and gerund of?
Going the route is the present participle and gerund of go the route.

Words near going the route in the dictionary

  1. going strong
  2. going the distance
  3. going the entire animal
  4. going the entire swine
  5. going the extra mile
  6. going the route
  7. going the way of
  8. going the way of all the earth
  9. going the way of the dinosaurs
  10. going the way of the dodo
  11. going the way of the dodo bird

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