processions
Lines that advance
Processions is the plural of procession—a group of people or vehicles moving forward in an orderly line, often ceremonial: funeral processions, wedding processions, religious processions through the streets.
The word suggests formality and deliberate pace rather than casual movement.
Remains on surface
- marching bandMobile musical ensemble
- spectatorsThose who observe events
- routePath from A to B
- crowdsAssembled multitudes
balloons · grandstand · drumline · majorettes · cheerleaders · banners · marshal · formation
Vehicle transporting caskets
- pallbearersFuneral procession carriers
- cortegeCeremonial attendant procession
- mournersThose lamenting a death
- casketBurial container
coffin · burial · graveside · cemetery · interment · eulogy · wake · condolences
Religious journey to shrine
- liturgyFormal worship structure
- vestmentsCeremonial religious attire
- incenseAnger greatly, or aromatic resin
- chantingRhythmic repetitive vocalization
clergy · altar · candles · relics · icons · crucifix · banner · hymns
Traveling amusement attraction
- festivalOrganized public celebration
- dragon danceCeremonial Chinese procession performance
- lanternsEnclosed portable light sources
- Mardi GrasPre-Ash Wednesday celebration
Carnival · Diwali · Day of the Dead · effigy · puppets · masks · drums · dancers
Ceremony installing a sovereign
- inaugurationFormal beginning ceremony
- graduationCompleting academic requirements formally
- commencementAct of starting
- regaliaCeremonial emblems of authority
robes · dignitaries · standard-bearers · protocol · pomp · pageantry · heraldry · trumpeters
floats
Remains on surface
- marching bandMobile musical ensemble
- spectatorsThose who observe events
- routePath from A to B
crowds · balloons · grandstand · drumline · majorettes · cheerleaders · banners · marshal · formation · fanfare
hearse
Vehicle transporting caskets
- pallbearersFuneral procession carriers
- cortegeCeremonial attendant procession
- mournersThose lamenting a death
casket · coffin · burial · graveside · cemetery · interment · eulogy · wake · condolences · bereavement
pilgrimage
Religious journey to shrine
- liturgyFormal worship structure
- vestmentsCeremonial religious attire
- incenseAnger greatly, or aromatic resin
chanting · clergy · altar · candles · relics · icons · crucifix · banner · hymns · blessing
carnival
Traveling amusement attraction
- festivalOrganized public celebration
- dragon danceCeremonial Chinese procession performance
- lanternsEnclosed portable light sources
Mardi Gras · Carnival · Diwali · Day of the Dead · effigy · puppets · masks · drums · dancers · torches
coronation
Ceremony installing a sovereign
- inaugurationFormal beginning ceremony
- graduationCompleting academic requirements formally
- commencementAct of starting
regalia · robes · dignitaries · standard-bearers · protocol · pomp · pageantry · heraldry · trumpeters · royal
- folk festivalsBeltane, Samhain, maypole, Midsummer, Harvest Festival
- AndalusiaSeville, Sevilla, Granada, Malaga, Cadiz
- Colonial PhilippinesSpanish colonization, Augustinians, Dominicans, Franciscans, Jesuits
- Latin Catholicismbasilicas, dioceses, archdioceses, convents, seminaries
- Portuguese CatholicismFatima, patron saints, parish churches, religious festivals, Holy Week
- religious ritualspuja, darshan, aarti, incense burning, prostration
processionshalts
Suddenly stops moving
standstills · immobility · stasis · stillness · assemblies
processionsdispersals
Acts of spreading outward
retreats · scatterings · disbandments · routs · evacuations
- funeral processionFormal journey to interment
- bridal processionCeremony entrance parade
- religious processionCeremonial march of worshippers
- royal processionMonarchs' formal public march
- slow procession
- mourning procession