parades

• advertises
• airs
• announces
• bares
• blazes
• brandishes
• broadcasts
• callithumps
• columns
• corteges
• discovers
• displays
• disports
• divulges
• exhibits
• exposes
• files
• flashes
• flaunts
• flourishes
• goose-steps
• heralds
• hikes
• lays out
• lines
• lumbers
• marches
• paces
• perambulates
• placards
• plods
• posts
• processions
• proclaims
• produces
• progresses
• publicizes
• reveals
• shows
• shows off
• sounds
• sports
• stamps
• steps
• stomps
• strides
• strings
• struts
• trains
• traipses
• tramps
• treads
• trudges
• trumpets
• uncloaks
• uncovers
• unmasks
• unveils
• waves

• ambles
• camouflages
• conceals
• covers
• curtains
• disguises
• enshrouds
• hides
• masks
• meanders
• obscures
• occludes
• occults
• rambles
• shrouds
• strolls
• veils
• wanders

• noun
  1. An organized procession consisting of a series of consecutive displays, performances, exhibits, etc. displayed by moving down a street past a crowd of spectators.
  2. A procession of people moving down a street, organized to protest something.
  3. Any succession, series, or display of items.
  4. A line of goslings led by one parent and often trailed by the other.
  5. Pompous show; formal display or exhibition; outward show (as opposed to substance).
  6. An assembling of troops for inspection or to receive orders.
  7. Posture of defense; guard.
  8. The ground where a military display is held, or where troops are drilled.
  9. A public walk; a promenade; now used in street names.
  10. (collective) (uncommon) A term of venery denoting a herd of elephants on the move.
• verb
  1. To march in or as if in a procession.
  2. To cause (someone) to march in or as if in a procession; to display or show (something) during a procession.
  3. To exhibit in a showy or ostentatious manner.
  4. To march past.
  5. To march through or along; (of a vehicle) to move slowly through or along.
  6. To assemble to receive orders.
  7. To assemble (soldiers, sailors) for inspection, to receive orders, etc.
  8. (of geese and other waterfowl) To march in a line led by one parent and often trailed by the other.

• The city organizes several parades each year to celebrate different holidays.
• She loves watching the colorful parades with her family.
• The school parades through town after every big sports victory.
• Carnival season brings joyful parades with music and dancing.
• Many cultures have traditional parades to mark important events.

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