Christmas parade
Festive December march
A Christmas parade is a festive procession held during the holiday season, typically featuring floats, marching bands, costumed characters, and Santa Claus.
Most towns and cities hold one annually in late November or December: The kids bundled up to watch the Christmas parade down Main Street.
The parade often marks the unofficial start of the holiday shopping season.
- floatsRemains on surface
- grand marshalCeremonial procession leader
- beauty queenCrowned contest winner
- marching bandsMobile musical ensembles
- SantaMythical Christmas gift-bringer
tinsel · candy canes · spectators · Main Street · elves · marching band · reindeer · drumline · hot cocoa · bundled up · waving · candy throwing · confetti · carolers · snowflakes · mittens · cheering · fire truck
- country festivitiescounty fair, state fair, country fair, harvest festival, fall festival
- paradesmarching bands, floats, marching band, drum majors, confetti
- processionsprocession, march, funeral procession, motorcade, cortege
- Small-Town Lifegeneral store, town square, front porch, church steeple, water tower
- winter eventsNew Year, snowstorm, blizzard, ice storm, Winter Olympics
Christmas paradefuneral procession
Formal journey to interment
memorial march · death march · mourning procession · silent march · protest march
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