parade vs stride

parade

verb
  • To walk in a row led by one parent, often trailed by the other. 

  • Synonym of show off: to display or reveal prominently or ostentatiously, especially in a kind of procession. 

  • To march through or along. 

  • To march past. 

  • To assemble soldiers for inspection, to receive orders, etc. 

  • To assemble for inspection, to receive orders, etc. 

  • To move slowly through or among. 

  • To march impressively or ostentatiously. 

  • Synonym of promenade: to walk up and down, especially in public in order to show off and be seen by others. 

noun
  • Synonym of military parade: A show of troops, an assembly of troops as a show of force, to receive orders, or especially for inspection at set times. 

  • The body of soldiers thus assembled. 

  • Synonym of parade ground: A place specially designated for such displays or for practicing close-order drills. 

  • Synonym of road, used in place names. 

  • A row of shops beside a street. 

  • Synonym of parry in both its literal and figurative senses. 

  • Synonym of herd: A group of elephants when on the move. 

  • Synonym of gaggle: A group of geese when on the move, particularly a line of goslings shepherded by one or more adults. 

  • Synonym of show: any similarly orderly or ostentatious display, especially of a variety of people or a series of things paraded around. 

  • A public procession, especially one commemorating a holiday or special event or (dated) in protest. 

  • The body of promenaders thus assembled. 

stride

verb
  • To walk with long steps. 

  • To stand with the legs wide apart; to straddle. 

  • To straddle; to bestride. 

  • To pass over at a step; to step over. 

noun
  • The distance covered by a long step. 

  • A long step in walking. 

  • A jazz piano style of the 1920s and 1930s. The left hand characteristically plays a four-beat pulse with a single bass note, octave, seventh or tenth interval on the first and third beats, and a chord on the second and fourth beats. 

  • The number of memory locations between successive elements in an array, pixels in a bitmap, etc. 

How often have the words parade and stride occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )