Walk vs. Strut: What's the Difference?
By Harlon Moss & Aimie Carlson || Updated on May 23, 2024
Walk refers to moving at a regular pace by lifting and setting down each foot in turn, while strut means walking with a proud, confident, and often exaggerated gait.
Key Differences
Walk refers to the basic action of moving by placing one foot in front of the other in a regular, unhurried pace. It is a neutral term used to describe the simple act of moving from one place to another on foot. Strut, on the other hand, refers to walking in a manner that is intended to attract attention or convey confidence and pride.
While walking is a common and unremarkable way of moving, strutting is often seen as more dramatic and noticeable. Walking can be done for various reasons, such as exercise, commuting, or leisure, whereas strutting is typically associated with a deliberate display of confidence or style.
Walking is functional and universal, while strutting conveys a specific attitude or emotion. Both involve movement on foot, but the intention and style behind each action differ significantly.
Comparison Chart
Definition
Moving at a regular pace by lifting and setting down each foot in turn
Walking with a proud, confident, and often exaggerated gait
Connotation
Neutral
Confident, showy
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Motion Style
Even, steady pace
Exaggerated, attention-seeking
Typical Purpose
Exercise, commuting, leisure
Displaying confidence or style
Perception
Common, unremarkable
Dramatic, noticeable
Walk and Strut Definitions
Walk
To move at a regular pace by lifting and setting down each foot in turn.
She decided to walk to the store instead of driving.
Strut
To display one's importance or abilities in a showy way.
She strutted her new dress at the party, turning heads everywhere she went.
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Walk
To go on foot for a particular distance or duration.
He takes a walk every morning for exercise.
Strut
To walk with a proud, confident, and often exaggerated gait.
The peacock strutted across the yard, showing off its feathers.
Walk
To move along or around on foot.
We walked around the park enjoying the weather.
Strut
To walk with pompous bearing; swagger.
Walk
To progress in a steady manner.
The project is walking along at a good pace.
Strut
To display in order to impress others. Sometimes used with out
Don't strut out your resume until you have more accomplishments to list.
Walk
To lead or guide someone on foot.
He walked her to her car after the party.
Strut
To provide (a structure) with a strut or struts.
Walk
To move over a surface by taking steps with the feet at a pace slower than a run
A baby learning to walk.
A horse walking around a riding ring.
Strut
To brace or separate with a strut.
Walk
To go or travel on foot
Walked to the store.
Strut
A pompous, self-important gait.
Walk
To go on foot for pleasure or exercise; stroll
Walked along the beach looking for shells.
Strut
A structural element used to brace or strengthen a framework by resisting stress or compression.
Walk
To move in a manner suggestive of walking
Saw a woodpecker walking up the tree trunk.
Strut
(intransitive) Of a peacock or other fowl: to stand or walk stiffly, with the tail erect and spread out.
Walk
To conduct oneself or behave in a particular manner; live
Walks in majesty and pride.
Strut
To walk haughtily or proudly with one's head held high.
He strutted about the yard, thinking himself master of all he surveyed.
Walk
To appear as a supernatural being
The specter of famine walks through the land.
Strut
To walk across or on (a stage or other place) haughtily or proudly.
Walk
To go out on strike.
Strut
Often followed by out: to protuberate or stick out due to being full or swollen; to bulge, to swell.
Walk
To resign from one's job abruptly; quit.
Strut
Often followed by out: to cause (something) to bulge, protrude, or swell.
Walk
To be acquitted
The alleged killer walked.
Strut
To brace or support (something) by a strut or struts; to hold (something) in place or strengthen by a diagonal, transverse, or upright support.
Walk
(Baseball) To go to first base after the pitcher has thrown four pitches ruled as balls.
Strut
(intransitive) To be attached diagonally or at a slant; also, to be bent at a sharp angle.
Walk
(Basketball) To move illegally while holding the ball; travel.
Strut
A step or walk done stiffly and with the head held high, often due to haughtiness or pride; affected dignity in walking.
Walk
(Obsolete) To be in constant motion.
Strut
(historical) An instrument for adjusting the pleats of a ruff.
Walk
To go or pass over, on, or through by walking
Walk the financial district of a city.
Strut
A beam or rod providing support.
Walk
To bring to a specified condition by walking
They walked me to exhaustion.
Strut
An act of angle]]; specifically, deviation (of the spoke of a wheel) from the normal position.
Walk
To cause to walk or proceed at a walk
Walk a horse uphill.
Strut
(obsolete) Swelling out due to being full; bulging, protuberant, swollen.
Walk
To accompany in walking; escort on foot
Walk the children home.
Walked me down the hall.
Strut
Drunk, intoxicated; fou.
Walk
To traverse on foot in order to survey or measure; pace off
Walked the bounds of the property.
Strut
To swell; to bulge out.
The bellying canvas strutted with the gale.
Walk
To move (a heavy or cumbersome object) in a manner suggestive of walking
Walked the bureau into the hall.
Strut
To walk with a lofty, proud gait, and erect head; to walk with affected dignity.
Does he not hold up his head, . . . and strut in his gait?
Walk
To allow (a batter) to go to first base by throwing four pitches ruled as balls.
Strut
The act of strutting; a pompous step or walk.
Walk
To cause (a run) to score by walking a batter. Often used with in.
Strut
In general, any piece of a frame which resists thrust or pressure in the direction of its own length. See Brace, and Illust. of Frame, and Roof.
Walk
The gait of a human or other biped in which the feet are lifted alternately with one part of a foot always on the ground.
Strut
Any part of a machine or structure, of which the principal function is to hold things apart; a brace subjected to compressive stress; - the opposite of stay, and tie.
Walk
The gait of a quadruped in which at least two feet are always touching the ground, especially the gait of a horse in which the feet touch the ground in the four-beat sequence of near hind foot, near forefoot, off hind foot, off forefoot.
Strut
Protuberant.
Walk
The self-controlled extravehicular movement in space of an astronaut.
Strut
Struthious.
Walk
The act or an instance of walking, especially a stroll for pleasure or exercise.
Strut
A proud stiff pompous gait
Walk
The rate at which one walks; a walking pace.
Strut
Brace consisting of a bar or rod used to resist longitudinal compression
Walk
The characteristic way in which one walks.
Strut
To walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others;
He struts around like a rooster in a hen house
Walk
The distance covered or to be covered in walking.
Strut
To move in a way intended to attract attention or display confidence.
The model strutted down the runway with poise.
Walk
A place, such as a sidewalk or promenade, on which one may walk.
Strut
To walk with an affectedly pompous or self-important air.
He strutted into the room as if he owned the place.
Walk
A route or circuit particularly suitable for walking
One of the prettiest walks in the area.
Strut
To exhibit a proud or stiff gait.
The young athlete strutted around the field after scoring the goal.
Walk
(Baseball) A base on balls.
Walk
(Basketball) The act or an instance of moving illegally with the ball; traveling.
Walk
A track event in which contestants compete in walking a specified distance.
Walk
Racewalking.
Walk
An enclosed area designated for the exercise or pasture of livestock.
Walk
An arrangement of trees or shrubs planted in widely spaced rows.
Walk
The space between such rows.
Walk
(intransitive) To move on the feet by alternately setting each foot (or pair or group of feet, in the case of animals with four or more feet) forward, with at least one foot on the ground at all times. Compare run.
To walk briskly for an hour every day is to keep fit.
Walk
To "walk free", i.e. to win, or avoid, a criminal court case, particularly when actually guilty.
If you can’t present a better case, that robber is going to walk.
Walk
Of an object, to go missing or be stolen.
If you leave your wallet lying around, it’s going to walk.
Walk
To walk off the field, as if given out, after the fielding side appeals and before the umpire has ruled; done as a matter of sportsmanship when the batsman believes he is out.
Walk
(transitive) To travel (a distance) by walking.
I walk two miles to school every day.
The museum’s not far from here – you can walk it.
Walk
(transitive) To take for a walk or accompany on a walk.
I walk the dog every morning.
Will you walk me home?
Walk
To allow a batter to reach base by pitching four balls.
Walk
(transitive) To move something by shifting between two positions, as if it were walking.
I carefully walked the ladder along the wall.
Walk
(transitive) To full; to beat cloth to give it the consistency of felt.
Walk
(transitive) To traverse by walking (or analogous gradual movement).
I walked the streets aimlessly.
Debugging this computer program involved walking the heap.
Walk
To operate the left and right throttles of (an aircraft) in alternation.
Walk
To leave, resign.
If we don't offer him more money he'll walk.
Walk
(transitive) To push (a vehicle) alongside oneself as one walks.
Walk
To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct oneself.
Walk
To be stirring; to be abroad; to go restlessly about; said of things or persons expected to remain quiet, such as a sleeping person, or the spirit of a dead person.
Walk
(obsolete) To be in motion; to act; to move.
Walk
To put, keep, or train (a puppy) in a walk, or training area for dogfighting.
Walk
To move a guest to another hotel if their confirmed reservation is not available on day of check-in.
Walk
A trip made by walking.
I take a walk every morning.
Walk
A distance walked.
It’s a long walk from my house to the library.
Walk
(sports) An Olympic Games track event requiring that the heel of the leading foot touch the ground before the toe of the trailing foot leaves the ground.
Walk
A manner of walking; a person's style of walking.
The Ministry of Silly Walks is underfunded this year.
Walk
A path, sidewalk/pavement or other maintained place on which to walk.
Walk
(figurative) A person's conduct or course in life.
Walk
(poker) A situation where all players fold to the big blind, as their first action (instead of calling or raising), once they get their cards.
Walk
(baseball) An award of first base to a batter following four balls being thrown by the pitcher; known in the rules as a "base on balls".
The pitcher now has two walks in this inning alone.
Walk
In coffee, coconut, and other plantations, the space between them.
Walk
An area of an estate planted with fruit-bearing trees.
Walk
(historical) A place for keeping and training puppies for dogfighting.
Walk
(historical) An enclosed area in which a gamecock is confined to prepare him for fighting.
Walk
(graph theory) A sequence of alternating vertices and edges, where each edge's endpoints are the preceding and following vertices in the sequence.
Walk
(colloquial) Something very easily accomplished; a walk in the park.
Walk
A cheque drawn on a bank that was not a member of the London Clearing and whose sort code was allocated on a one-off basis; they had to be "walked" (hand-delivered by messengers).
Walk
To move along on foot; to advance by steps; to go on at a moderate pace; specifically, of two-legged creatures, to proceed at a slower or faster rate, but without running, or lifting one foot entirely before the other touches the ground.
At the end of twelve months, he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon.
When Peter was come down out of the ship, he walked on the water, to go to Jesus.
Walk
To move or go on the feet for exercise or amusement; to take one's exercise; to ramble.
Walk
To be stirring; to be abroad; to go restlessly about; - said of things or persons expected to remain quiet, as a sleeping person, or the spirit of a dead person; to go about as a somnambulist or a specter.
I have heard, but not believed, the spirits of the deadMay walk again.
When was it she last walked?
Walk
To be in motion; to act; to move; to wag.
Do you think I'd walk in any plot?
I heard a pen walking in the chimney behind the cloth.
Walk
To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct one's self.
We walk perversely with God, and he will walk crookedly toward us.
Walk
To move off; to depart.
He will make their cows and garrans to walk.
Walk
To pass through, over, or upon; to traverse; to perambulate; as, to walk the streets.
As we walk our earthly round.
Walk
To cause to walk; to lead, drive, or ride with a slow pace; as, to walk one's horses; to walk the dog.
Walk
To subject, as cloth or yarn, to the fulling process; to full.
Walk
To put or keep (a puppy) in a walk; to train (puppies) in a walk.
Walk
To move in a manner likened to walking.
She walked a spinning wheel into the house, making it use first one and then the other of its own spindling legs to achieve progression rather than lifting it by main force.
Walk
The act of walking, or moving on the feet with a slow pace; advance without running or leaping.
Walk
The act of walking for recreation or exercise; as, a morning walk; an evening walk.
Walk
Manner of walking; gait; step; as, we often know a person at a distance by his walk.
Walk
That in or through which one walks; place or distance walked over; a place for walking; a path or avenue prepared for foot passengers, or for taking air and exercise; way; road; hence, a place or region in which animals may graze; place of wandering; range; as, a sheep walk.
A woody mountain . . . with goodliest treesPlanted, with walks and bowers.
He had walk for a hundred sheep.
Amid the sound of steps that beatThe murmuring walks like rain.
Walk
A frequented track; habitual place of action; sphere; as, the walk of the historian.
The mountains are his walks.
He opened a boundless walk for his imagination.
Walk
Conduct; course of action; behavior.
Walk
The route or district regularly served by a vender; as, a milkman's walk.
Walk
In coffee, coconut, and other plantations, the space between them.
Walk
A place for keeping and training puppies.
Walk
The act of traveling by foot;
Walking is a healthy form of exercise
Walk
(baseball) an advance to first base by a batter who receives four balls;
He worked the pitcher for a base on balls
Walk
Manner of walking;
He had a funny walk
Walk
The act of walking somewhere;
He took a walk after lunch
Walk
A path set aside for walking;
After the blizzard he shoveled the front walk
Walk
A slow gait of a horse in which two feet are always on the ground
Walk
Careers in general;
It happens in all walks of life
Walk
Use one's feet to advance; advance by steps;
Walk, don't run!
We walked instead of driving
She walks with a slight limp
The patient cannot walk yet
Walk over to the cabinet
Walk
Traverse or cover by walking;
Walk the tightrope
Paul walked the streets of Damascus
She walks 3 miles every day
Walk
Accompany or escort;
I'll walk you to your car
Walk
Obtain a base on balls
Walk
Live or behave in a specified manner;
Walk in sadness
Walk
Take a walk; go for a walk; walk for pleasure;
The lovers held hands while walking
We like to walk every Sunday
Walk
Give a base on balls to
Walk
Be or act in association with;
We must walk with our dispossessed brothers and sisters
Walk with God
Walk
Make walk;
He walks the horse up the mountain
Walk the dog twice a day
Walk
Walk at a pace;
The horsese walked across the meadow
FAQs
What does strut mean?
Strut means to walk with a proud, confident, and often exaggerated gait.
Is walking considered neutral?
Yes, walking is considered a neutral, everyday activity.
Is strutting considered dramatic?
Yes, strutting is considered dramatic and attention-seeking.
Does strutting imply an attitude?
Yes, strutting implies an attitude of pride or self-assurance.
Is walking universal?
Yes, walking is a universal form of human movement.
Can walking be for exercise?
Yes, walking is often done for exercise.
Can walking be a form of transportation?
Yes, walking is a common form of transportation.
Can strutting be seen as showy?
Yes, strutting can be seen as showy or flamboyant.
What does walk mean?
Walk means to move at a regular pace by lifting and setting down each foot in turn.
Is strutting associated with confidence?
Yes, strutting is associated with displaying confidence or style.
Does strutting involve exaggerated movements?
Yes, strutting often involves exaggerated and noticeable movements.
Is strutting more common in performance?
Yes, strutting is more common in performances, fashion shows, and events requiring display.
Can walking be leisurely?
Yes, walking can be done leisurely for relaxation and enjoyment.
Is walking a basic human activity?
Yes, walking is a basic and fundamental human activity.
Does walking imply a destination?
Walking often implies moving towards a destination, but not always.
Is strutting common in animals?
Yes, some animals, like peacocks, strut to display their features.
Can walking be done anywhere?
Yes, walking can be done in various environments, such as parks, streets, and indoors.
Does strutting imply a purpose?
Strutting often implies a purpose of displaying confidence or attracting attention.
Is strutting used in specific contexts?
Yes, strutting is often seen in contexts where one wants to display confidence, such as fashion shows or performances.
Can walking help with health?
Yes, walking is beneficial for health and fitness.
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