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walking pace

walking pace noun: the speed at which a person or animal usually walks.

Noun

walking pace (countable and uncountable, plural walking paces)

  1. The speed at which a person or animal usually walks.
    • The motorman had reduced speed to little more than walking pace as we approached the signal, and had the brakes released as we came up to it.1959 October, O. S. Nock, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 703
    • An intermodal train from the Midlands creeps into the GB Railfreight terminal in Southampton's Western Docks, at rather less than walking pace.2020 June 3, Paul Clifton, “Southampton feels the full force of freight uncertainty”, in RAIL, page 28

Forms of walking pace

pluralwalking paces

Questions about walking pace

What does walking pace mean?
Walking pace means the speed at which a person or animal usually walks.
What part of speech is walking pace?
Walking pace is a noun.
What is the plural of walking pace?
The plural of walking pace is walking paces.

Words near walking pace in the dictionary

  1. walking onion
  2. walking onions
  3. walking out
  4. walking out on
  5. walking over
  6. walking pace
  7. walking paces
  8. walking palm
  9. walking palms
  10. walking papers
  11. walking patient

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