Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.

synonym: political action committee.

The rate of moving (especially walking or running).

synonym: gait.

Dutch: gang

The distance covered by a step:
— He stepped off ten paces from the old tree and began to dig.

synonyms: footstep, step, stride.

Roget 264: motion, movement, move; going etc. v.; unrest.    stream, flow, flux, run, course, stir; evolution; kinematics; telekinesis.    step, rate, pace, tread, stride, gait, port, footfall, cadence, carriage, velocity, angular velocity; clip, progress, locomotion; journey etc. 266; voyage etc. 267; transit etc. 270.    restlessness etc. (changeableness) 149; mobility; movableness, motive power; laws of motion; mobilization.    ... show more

Dutch: tree

The relative speed of progress or change:
— He lived at a fast pace.
— The pace of events accelerated.

synonym: rate.

Dutch: tarief
Polish: prędkość, szybkość

A step in walking or running.

synonyms: stride, tread.

Dutch: pas, schrede, stap, trede, voetstap

The rate of some repeating event.

synonym: tempo.

A unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44 centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a stride.

synonym: yard.

Dutch: yard
Polish: yard, jard

Walk with slow or fast paces.

Go at a pace.

Measure (distances) by pacing.

synonym: step.

Roget 266: travel, journey, course; take a journey, go a journey; take a walk, go out for walk etc. n.; have a run; take the air.    flit, take wing; migrate, emigrate; trek; rove, prowl, roam, range, patrol, pace up and down, traverse; scour the country, traverse the country; peragrate^†; circumambulate, perambulate; nomadize^†, wander, ramble, stroll, saunter, hover, go one's rounds, straggle; gad, gad about; expatiate.    walk, march, step, tread, pace, plod, wend, go by shank's mare; promenade; trudge, tramp; stalk, stride, straddle, strut, foot it, hoof it, stump, bundle, bowl along, toddle; paddle; tread a path.    take horse, ride, drive, trot, amble, canter, prance, fisk^†, frisk, caracoler^†, caracole; gallop etc. (move quickly) 274.    [start riding] embark, board, set out, hit the road, get going, get underway.    peg on, jog on, wag on, shuffle on; stir one's stumps; bend one's steps, bend one's course; make one's way, find one's way, wend one's way, pick one's way, pick one's way, thread one's way, plow one's way; slide, glide, coast, skim, skate; march in procession, file on, defile.    go to, repair to, resort to, hie to, betake oneself to.    ... show more

Regulate or set the pace of.