marching

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of march

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)Action described by the verb "to march".

   “A pianoforte is desirable, to lead the singing, and accompany the plays, gymnastics, frequent marchings, and dancing, when that is taught,—which it should be.”

   “But of the marchings and retreatings of these Six-thousand no Xenophon exists. Nothing, but an inarticulate hum, of cursing and sooty frenzy, surviving dubious in the memory of ages!”

   “All steps and marchings executed from a halt, except right step, begin with the left foot.”

adj

1. (not-comparable)That marches.

   “a marching band”

2. (not-comparable)Placed or situated in a line or lines, reminiscent or evocative of marching soldiers.

   “[T]he occasional trees, the stone-heaps, the marching fences, the stumps, the saplings, the cows, and the feeding sheep.”