Pacing
/ˈpeɪsɪŋ/ noun, verb
noun, verb ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 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 walking with slow regular strides wordnet
- 3 (music) the speed at which a composition is to be played wordnet
Verb
- 1 present participle and gerund of pace form-of, gerund, participle, present
Example
More examples"Jack was pacing up and down in the room, lost in thought."