foot (it)

verb

Definition of foot (it)next
1
as in to walk
to go on foot after the car broke down, we had to foot it to the movie

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2
as in to dance
to perform a series of usually rhythmic bodily movements to music got out onto the dance floor and footed it like crazy

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for foot (it)
  1. walk
  2. dance
  3. tread
Verb
  • When the plane landed, 28 of those travelers reportedly walked away leaving the chairs behind.
    Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 31 Dec. 2024
  • Others were walking the runway, scouring the area and collecting pieces of the plane.
    Hakyung Kate Lee, ABC News, 31 Dec. 2024
Definition of walk
Verb
  • At the parking lot of a Kroger supermarket, families danced and sang to Syrian music.
    John Ketchum, NPR, 29 Dec. 2024
  • More:The northern lights danced across the US last night.
    Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 28 Dec. 2024
Definition of dance
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  • Today, this citadel in the clouds faces a different kind of conquest: nearly a million people each year are treading sacred ground at this New Wonder of the World.
    Paul Jebara, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Tonally, the organization treaded carefully between seriousness and levity; with few previous models for this sort of organizing, members had to – as Frazier would later put it in a 1995 essay – do it from scratch.
    Jazmine Hughes, Them, 20 Dec. 2024
Definition of tread
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“Foot (it).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/foot%20%28it%29. Accessed 5 Jan. 2025.

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