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Stroll vs Pacing - What's the difference?

stroll | pacing |

As nouns the difference between stroll and pacing

is that stroll is a wandering on foot; an idle and leisurely walk; a ramble while pacing is the act of moving in paces, or their arrangement or timing.

As verbs the difference between stroll and pacing

is that stroll is to wander on foot; to ramble idly or leisurely; to rove while pacing is .

stroll

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A wandering on foot; an idle and leisurely walk; a ramble.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To wander on foot; to ramble idly or leisurely; to rove.
  • *(Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)
  • *:These mothers stroll to beg sustenance for their helpless infants.
  • *, chapter=7
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=The turmoil went on—no rest, no peace. […] It was nearly eleven o'clock now, and he strolled out again. In the little fair created by the costers' barrows the evening only seemed beginning; and the naphtha flares made one's eyes ache, the men's voices grated harshly, and the girls' faces saddened one.}}
  • To go somewhere with ease.
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  • *:His sister, Mrs. Gerard, stood there in carriage gown and sables, radiant with surprise. ¶ “Phil?!  You?!   Exactly like you, Philip, to come strolling in from the antipodes—dear fellow?!” recovering from the fraternal embrace and holding both lapels of his coat in her gloved hands.

    • Synonyms

    * range, roam, rove, stray

    See also

    * stroller

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    pacing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of moving in paces, or their arrangement or timing.
  • * Oliver Sacks, Awakenings
    • We have repeatedly referred to the usefulness of steps, lines, ticks, clocks, routines, pacings , etc. - scales, measures, series, patterns, disposed in a fixed and regular and conventional space-time.

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