motorcade
Dignitary vehicle parade
A motorcade is a procession of motor vehicles, typically escorting an important person such as a head of state or dignitary: The presidential motorcade wound through downtown.
The term combines "motor" with the "-cade" ending borrowed from cavalcade.
Motorcades often include security vehicles, police escorts, and support cars traveling in formation.
Machines for transportation
- caravanTraveling group with goods
- fleetVehicles under unified command
- columnVertical structural element
- cortegeCeremonial attendant procession
procession · entourage · formation · line · train · escort · police cars · outriders
Formal beginning ceremony
- funeralService honoring the dead
- cortegeCeremonial attendant procession
- hearseVehicle transporting caskets
- pageantryElaborate ceremonial display
state funeral · commemoration · tribute · procession · JFK · honor · solemnity · memorial
Resistant to gunfire
- armoredProtected by metal covering
- Secret ServiceFederal protective law enforcement
- bodyguardPaid personal security agent
- protectionGuarding against harm
detail · checkpoint · perimeter · surveillance · tactical · secure · shield · threat assessment
Elected leader of nation
- VIPNotable, for short
- head of stateNation's chief representative
- ambassadorOfficial foreign representative
- popeCatholic Church's supreme leader
royal · prime minister · governor · diplomat · delegation · summit · state visit · official
vehicles
Machines for transportation
- caravanTraveling group with goods
- fleetVehicles under unified command
- columnVertical structural element
cortege · procession · entourage · formation · line · train · escort · police cars · outriders · lead car
inauguration
Formal beginning ceremony
- funeralService honoring the dead
- cortegeCeremonial attendant procession
- hearseVehicle transporting caskets
pageantry · state funeral · commemoration · tribute · procession · JFK · honor · solemnity · memorial · wreath-laying
bulletproof
Resistant to gunfire
- armoredProtected by metal covering
- Secret ServiceFederal protective law enforcement
- bodyguardPaid personal security agent
protection · detail · checkpoint · perimeter · surveillance · tactical · secure · shield · threat assessment · lockdown
president
Elected leader of nation
- VIPNotable, for short
- head of stateNation's chief representative
- ambassadorOfficial foreign representative
pope · royal · prime minister · governor · diplomat · delegation · summit · state visit · official · protocol
streets
Public urban ways
- blockedPassage prevented or impeded
- clearedFound not guilty
- intersectionPoint where paths meet
roadway · path · itinerary · detour · closure · barricade · lined · spectators · crowds · bystanders
- parade eventsgrand marshal, marching bands, baton twirlers, drum corps, majorettes
- convoysconvoy, supply convoy, military convoy, caravan, truck convoy
- luxury transportlimousine, limo, stretch limo, private jet, chauffeur
- paradesmarching bands, floats, marching band, drum majors, confetti
- presidencyOval Office, president, Washington, executive branch, veto
- processionsprocession, march, funeral procession, cortege, processional