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route-march

route-march noun: a long march for training purposes.

Noun

route-march (plural route-marches)

  1. A long march for training purposes.
    • Half of the unit was preparing for some training exercise, apparently a route-march carrying full kit.2012, Rosemary Rowe, Whispering of Spies, →ISBN
    • He then proceeded to lead them on a route-march at a blistering pace that many struggled to keep up with.2013, Stuart Tootal, The Manner of Men: 9 PARA's Heroic D-Day Mission, →ISBN
  2. (broadly, informal) A long grueling walk.
    • Anna, she sensed, was the kind of indomitable woman who could go on a route-march for seven days and nights without sleeping.1998, Jill Neville, The Love Germ, →ISBN, page 121

Verb

route-march (third-person singular simple present route-marches, present participle route-marching, simple past and past participle route-marched)

  1. To go or send on a route-march.
    • The troops drilled, trained, route-marched, and adapted to military life and to each other.2011, James Hurst, Game to the Last: The 11th Australian Infantry Battalion at Gallipoli, →ISBN
    • The Battalion of East Surreys billeted in its sad empty houses was route-marched through the rain around Stirling.2013, Alan Whicker, Whicker’s War and Journey of a Lifetime, →ISBN
  2. (informal) To go or send on a long, exhausting tour by foot.
    • I always describe Deaf School as my tertiary education, I was route-marched around galleries and museums for the entire week, with running commentaries by informed people.2013, Paul Du Noyer, Deaf School: The Non-Stop Pop Art Punk Rock Party, →ISBN

route-march meaning in Tamil

route-march in Tamil

படைப்பயிற்சியினர் தொலைச்செலவு

Examples of route-march in a sentence

  • You know, I daresay, that nowadays a route-march is not simply a matter of marching.2013, Gerald Kersh, The Horrible Dummy and Other Stories, →ISBN:
  • I thought I was supposed to go on a route-march and be back by a certain time.2015, Colleen Ryan Clur, Pixie Annat: Champion of Nurses, →ISBN, page 51:

Forms of route-march

Noun
pluralroute-marches
alternative formroutemarch
alternative formroute march
Verb
third-person singular presentroute-marches
present participleroute-marching
past participleroute-marched
pastroute-marched

Questions about route-march

What does route-march mean?
Route-march means a long march for training purposes.
What is route-march in Tamil?
Route-march in Tamil is படைப்பயிற்சியினர் தொலைச்செலவு. See Route-march meaning in Tamil.
How do you use route-march in a sentence?
You know, I daresay, that nowadays a route-march is not simply a matter of marching.
What part of speech is route-march?
Route-march can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of route-march?
The plural of route-march is route-marches.

Words near route-march in the dictionary

  1. route setters
  2. route slip
  3. route slips
  4. route step
  5. route steps
  6. route-march
  7. route-marched
  8. route-marches
  9. route-marching
  10. route-one
  11. routeable

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Adapted from Wiktionary: route-march (page history and authors); route-march (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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