route march

noun

1. march in which a unit retains its column formation but individuals are allowed to break step.

Example Sentences

The 1-20 buckling Monday proved to be another headache for Atlanta area motorists already struggling with the collapse of an overpass on a key north-south route March 30.

From Seattle Times

My route march takes me past a dozen of these lonely cemeteries.

From BBC

Miliband etches out a monumental route march, that will take a bravery and political skill closer to Lloyd George in his People's Budget than anything Labour did last time in office.

From The Guardian

Second Lieutenant Rayner, who had just spent four strenuous months under canvas or on manœuvres, ending with a route march in which his battalion had covered a hundred and twenty miles in four days, smiled wanly.

From Project Gutenberg

Somewhere about noon, midway between Fairfax and Centreville, the "route march" was suddenly changed to silence and to cadence step.

From Project Gutenberg