parade-goer

Float audience member

A parade-goer is someone who attends a parade as a spectator.

The term appears mainly in news reports describing crowds: Parade-goers lined the streets for the Thanksgiving celebration.

Also spelled paradegoer.

festive

celebration

Festive event marking occasion

excitement · enthusiasm · cheerfulness · carnival · pageantry · fanfare · confetti · streamers · balloons · flags

crowd

throng

Dense pressing crowd

masses · spectators · attendees · onlookers · bystanders · watchers · congregation · horde · swarm · crush

spectating

watching

Actively looking at something

recording · pointing · craning · jostling · waiting · lining · standing · sitting · perching · binoculars

Opposites
participation role

parade-goermarcher

One who walks purposefully

performer · parade marshal · drum major · majorette · grand marshal

attendance

parade-goerno-show

One who fails to appear

absentee · stay-at-home · homebody

Family

parade, goer, parades, paraded, parading, goes, gone, goers, moviegoer

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G