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kick-stepping

kick-stepping is the present participle and gerund of kick-step.

Meaning of kick-step

Verb

kick-step (third-person singular simple present kick-steps, present participle kick-stepping, simple past and past participle kick-stepped)

  1. To dance using a kick-step.
    • Arms draped on shoulders, kick-stepping in circles, they swing bottles of wine. Purpled thumbs cork the bottles. The wine leaps and jumps behind green glass.2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)https://web.archive.org/web/20150212214621/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text
  2. To hike using a kick-step.

See all 4 meanings of kick-step

Questions about kick-stepping

What is kick-stepping the present participle and gerund of?
Kick-stepping is the present participle and gerund of kick-step.

Words near kick-stepping in the dictionary

  1. kick-starters
  2. kick-starting
  3. kick-starts
  4. kick-step
  5. kick-stepped
  6. kick-stepping
  7. kick-steps
  8. kick-the-can
  9. kick-to-kick
  10. kick-to-kicks
  11. Kickabil

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Adapted from Wiktionary: kick-stepping (page history and authors); kick-step (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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