walking pace

English

Noun

walking pace (countable and uncountable, plural walking paces)

  1. The speed at which a person or animal usually walks.
    • 1959 October, O. S. Nock, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 703:
      The motorman had reduced speed to little more than walking pace as we approached the signal, and had the brakes released as we came up to it.
    • 2020 June 3, Paul Clifton, “Southampton feels the full force of freight uncertainty”, in RAIL, page 28:
      An intermodal train from the Midlands creeps into the GB Railfreight terminal in Southampton's Western Docks, at rather less than walking pace.

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