walking pace
noun1
The speed at which a person or animal usually walks.
- 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.1959 October 23, O. S. Nock, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 703:
- An intermodal train from the Midlands creeps into the GB Railfreight terminal in Southampton's Western Docks, at rather less than walking pace.2020 June 3, Paul Clifton, “Southampton feels the full force of freight uncertainty”, in RAIL, page 28:
- Related terms
- footpace, snail's pace