cover ground

verb

To move across an area; to traverse a certain distance.

“I'll cover some more ground with the essay after my vacation.”

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Meanings

verbcover ground (third-person singular simple present covers ground, present participle covering ground, simple past and past participle covered ground)

present singular third person covers ground · participle present covering ground · participle past covered ground · past covered ground · alternative cover the ground

  1. To move across an area; to traverse a certain distance.

    A few times there we even followed you, but you weren’t going anywhere, just wandering, just covering ground.

    2001, Salman Rushdie, Fury: A Novel, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 4
  2. To do a certain amount of work; to make progress towards an end.

    I'll cover some more ground with the essay after my vacation.

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APA

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MLA

“cover ground.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cover%20ground. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “cover ground,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cover%20ground.

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