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Striding vs Strolling - What's the difference?

striding | strolling |

As verbs the difference between striding and strolling

is that striding is present participle of lang=en while strolling is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between striding and strolling

is that striding is the act of one who strides; a long step while strolling is the taking of a stroll.

striding

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who strides; a long step.
  • * 1804 , Thomas Brown, Poems (page 191)
    • How broad, amid those pines, the torch-flame red / Flings its dark flashes; and those steps, that fall, / Heavy, and slow, no voice amid their call, / Sound, like the giant-stridings of the dead!

    strolling

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The taking of a stroll.
  • * 1821 , John Foster, An essay on the evils of popular ignorance (page 147)