Movement
Synonyms for stride
Synonyms for stride: step and gait. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for stride
Interchangeable with stride in this sense
Audited under stride's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one stride carries in that sense.
- stepnoun, in the sense "a long, decisive step taken while walking or running"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name stride as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- gaitgait is a noun in the sense "a particular manner of walking or moving on foot"
The first group is filed under stride's own sense. The second reaches stride from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside it is that word's.
a long, decisive step taken while walking or running
She crossed the finish line in one final powerful stride.
The true synonym
step
Same sentence, swapped: She crossed the finish line in one final powerful step.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- medal
- whistle
- trophy
Where stride turns up in the game
stride is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
Play stride
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so stride reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from movement at Foothills outward to the whole bank.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. stride carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.