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{{Short description|Formal style of walking}} {{Redirect|Quick march|music|Quickstep (march music)}} {{Hatnote group| {{Distinguish|Marjing}} {{Other uses|March (disambiguation)}} }} {{more citations needed|date=February 2015}} [[File:Battalion march with gas mask.jpg|thumb|US Naval Construction Battalion NMCB-1 ([[Seabee (US Navy)|US Navy Seabee]]s) marching in route.]] [[File:Nara ww294 w455.jpg|thumb|370th Infantry Regiment, US Army, in route-step march toward the mountains north of [[Prato]], Italy, (the [[Gothic Line]]) β April 1945.]] '''Marching''' refers to the organized, uniformed, steady [[walking]] forward in either rhythmic or [[military step#Marching types|route-step]] time; and, typically, it refers to overland movements on foot of [[military]] [[troop]]s and [[military unit|unit]]s under [[five paragraph order|field orders]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=March Definition & Meaning {{!}} Britannica Dictionary |url=https://www.britannica.com/dictionary/march |access-date=2023-12-06 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en-US}}</ref> Marching is often performed to [[march (music)|march music]] and is typically associated with [[military parade|military]] and civilian ceremonial [[parade]]s. It is a major part of [[military]] basic training in most countries and usually involves a system of [[drill commands]]. It can also be used as a general term to describe a protest in which protestors move such as the [[March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom]], a watershed moment in the [[civil rights movement]].
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