Writer’s Shortcut: 35 Alternative Ways to Say ‘Walk’
Your characters will make a livelier entrance.
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2 min readSep 25, 2023
As a fiction author, I’m always thinking up new ways for my characters to move through my stories.
Edgar walked across the room.
They can’t walk in every sentence. I have to replace that word with a verb that fits the scene.
Besides, walk is boring. How about this instead:
Edgar sauntered across the room.
Yes! That’s better.
Constantly referring to a thesaurus slows me down, so I made a quick reference sheet of action verbs to replace walk.
I hope this list will help you write and edit your stories.
35 Ways to Say ‘Walk’
- advance
- amble
- approach
- creep
- cruise
- drift
- float
- glide
