Word.ws English Dictionary

putting one foot in front of the other

putting one foot in front of the other is the present participle and gerund of put one foot in front of the other.

Meaning of put one foot in front of the other

Verb

put one foot in front of the other (third-person singular simple present puts one foot in front of the other, present participle putting one foot in front of the other, simple past and past participle put one foot in front of the other)

  1. To walk, decomposed, to stress the fundamentality of the task.
  2. (idiomatic) To move forward, progress steadily.

Questions about putting one foot in front of the other

What is putting one foot in front of the other the present participle and gerund of?
Putting one foot in front of the other is the present participle and gerund of put one foot in front of the other.

Words near putting one foot in front of the other in the dictionary

  1. putting on the pounds
  2. putting on the red light
  3. putting on the ritz
  4. putting on the spot
  5. putting one across
  6. putting one foot in front of the other
  7. putting one in hospital
  8. putting one over
  9. putting one past
  10. putting one's ass on the line
  11. putting one's back into

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: putting one foot in front of the other (page history and authors); put one foot in front of the other (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “putting one foot in front of the other.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/putting_one_foot_in_front_of_the_other. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.