Parade vs. Cavalcade: What's the Difference?

An organized public procession on a festive or ceremonial occasion.

A procession of riders or horse-drawn carriages.

The participants in such a procession.

A ceremonial procession or display.

A regular place of assembly for reviews of troops. Also called parade ground.

A succession or series

A formal review of marching military troops.

(collective) A procession of riders, vehicles, ships, etc.

The troops taking part in such a review.

A ceremonial parade.

A line or extended group of moving persons or things

A trail ride, usually more than one day long.

An extended, usually showy succession

(by extension) An often dramatic series or chain of events or things.

An ostentatious show; an exhibition

To move as part of a series or group, such as marchers in a parade or snow in an avalanche, especially in large numbers or in a chaotic or dangerous fashion

A public square or promenade.

A procession of persons on horseback; a formal, pompous march of horsemen by way of parade.

To take part in a parade; march in a public procession

A procession of people traveling on horseback

To assemble for a ceremonial military review or other exercise.

To stroll in public, especially so as to be seen; promenade.

To behave so as to attract attention; show off.

To cause to take part in a parade

To assemble (troops) for a ceremonial review.

To march or walk through or around

To exhibit ostentatiously; flaunt

An organized display of a group of people, particularly

(military) military parade: A show of troops, an assembly of troops as a show of force, to receive orders, or especially for inspection at set times.

A public procession, especially one commemorating a holiday or special event or (dated) in protest.

Synonym of gaggle: A group of geese when on the move, particularly a line of goslings shepherded by one or more adults.

Synonym of herd: A group of elephants when on the move.

A place reserved for such displays, particularly

Synonym of parade ground: A place specially designated for such displays or for practicing close-order drills.

(dated) promenade: A route, street, or square frequented by pedestrians or formerly used for military parades.

(uncommon) road, used in place names.

The people who make up such a display, particularly

The body of soldiers thus assembled.

The body of promenaders thus assembled.

(figurative) show: any similarly orderly or ostentatious display, especially of a variety of people or a series of things paraded around.

A row of shops beside a street.

: a description of the programming schedule formerly announced on the radio and various television channels.

(uncommon) parry in both its literal and figurative senses.

(intransitive) To take part in a parade, particularly

To assemble for inspection, to receive orders, etc.

To march impressively or ostentatiously.

(transitive) To march past.

(transitive) To march through or along.

(figurative) promenade: to walk up and down, especially in public in order to show off and be seen by others.

To move slowly through or among.

To walk in a row led by one parent, often trailed by the other.

(transitive) To cause to take part in a parade, particularly

To assemble soldiers for inspection, to receive orders, etc.

(figurative) show off: to display or reveal prominently or ostentatiously, especially in a kind of procession.

To furnish with a parade or parades.

The ground where a military display is held, or where troops are drilled. Also called parade ground.

An assembly and orderly arrangement or display of troops, in full equipments, for inspection or evolutions before some superior officer; a review of troops. Parades are general, regimental, or private (troop, battery, or company), according to the force assembled.

Any imposing procession; the movement of any group of people marshaled in military order, especially a festive public procession, which may include a marching band, persons in varied costume, vehicles with elaborate displays, and other forms of entertainment, held in commemoration or celebration of an event or in honor of a person or persons; as, a parade of firemen; a Thanksgiving Day parade; a Memorial Day parade; a ticker-tape parade.

A pompous show; a formal or ostentatious display or exhibition.

Posture of defense; guard.

A public walk; a promenade.

To exhibit in a showy or ostentatious manner; to show off.

To assemble and form; to marshal; to cause to maneuver or march ceremoniously; as, to parade troops.

To make an exhibition or spectacle of one's self, as by walking in a public place.

To assemble in military order for evolutions and inspection; to form or march, as in review or in a public celebratory parade{3}.

A ceremonial procession including people marching

An extended (often showy) succession of persons or things;

A visible display;

Walk ostentatiously;

March in a procession;