route march

plural route marches

1. alternativeAlternative form of route-march.

   On 14 March the Battalion undertook a twenty-mile route march to Bouchon, and the following day a march of fourteen miles to Doullen.

   2000, Mark Lloyd -, London Scottish in the Great War, →ISBN, page 71

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   Well, there was route march, and then there was route march. As practiced by good soldiers, such as the fighters of the Che Loi Brigade, it was a spread-out formation in which one burst from a gun could not hit more than a few men, one small chemical-reaction explosive couldn't take down more than one or two.

   1999, David Sherman, Dan Cragg, Starfist: School of Fire, →ISBN, page 153

   He detested the man, always shouting at him and the other squaddies, always finding reasons to give them fatigues, an extra route march, another hour marching round the parade ground.

   2014, James Gervois, Misplaced Expectations, →ISBN

present singular third person route marches · participle present route marching · participle past route marched · past route marched

1. alternativeAlternative form of route-march.