Pacing

//ˈpeɪsɪŋ// noun, verb

noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The act of moving in paces, or their arrangement or timing.

    "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."

  2. 2
    walking with slow regular strides wordnet
  3. 3
    (music) the speed at which a composition is to be played wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of pace form-of, gerund, participle, present

Synonyms

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tempotempo

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"Jack was pacing up and down in the room, lost in thought."

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