The Collaborative International Dictionary
Troop \Troop\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Trooped; p. pr. & vb. n. Trooping.]
To move in numbers; to come or gather in crowds or troops. ``Armies . . . troop to their standard.''
--Milton.-
To march on; to go forward in haste.
Nor do I, as an enemy to peace, Troop in the throngs of military men.
--Shak.
Wiktionary
n. The act of marching in a troop. vb. (present participle of troop English)
Usage examples of "trooping".
The citizen crusade made diverting stories for the media, but the scientists knew that the main - and ominous - result of thousands on thousands of wellmeaning people trooping through woodlands with swatters, cyanide guns and torches had been to force the.
Lapiths stripped their kills of gleaming gear the fighters trooping behind Polydamas and Hector, the greatest force, the best and bravest, grim set above all to breach the wall and torch the ships, still halted up at the trench, torn with doubt.
The last of the late-night girls were trooping toward the subway station, already anomalous in their microskirts, hot pants, and full-body tattoos.
Away up the plain the horses, about thirty or forty in number, were slowly trooping into camp, hunted by a couple of blackfellows, naked except for little grass armlets worn above the elbow, and sticks stuck through their noses.
The colliers, their faces scarcely blackened, were trooping home again.
Through the window he can see the first drinkers trooping into the pub.
Many of the ants were leaf eaters, and Ultimate could see great chains of them trooping back and forth from the burgeoning plants bearing bits of greenery for their nests.
But if the tears did start at times, no one ever saw them fall, and with a courage that was all her own Blix watched the last days of the year trooping past and the approach of the New Year that was to begin the new life.
It was sad then, but to-day to the tune of soaring bobolinks I must be thinking how gayly the little ones put on their winglets all together, and, a white flock, went trooping off, shepherded by angels.
The rain kept up, falling along Harajuku, beading on her plastic jacket, the children of Tokyo trooping past the famous boutiques in white loafers and clingwrap capes, until she'd stood with him in the midnight clatter of a pachinko parlor and held his hand like a child.
Half of Bellingham is trooping through our basement because we've got a bomb shelter, a bomb shelter!
Men trooping down out of the hills told him that the footpaths were no longer guarded.
Their knee breeches were bark-brown, their coats the fern-green of trooping wights.
I simply don't see any good reason for our trooping off to partake of the bounty of the Lady of the Manor.
Like bagatelles we felt in that tremendous place, the weird luminaries gleaming above like garlands of frozen suns, the enigmatic hosts of animate cubes and spheres and pyramids trooping past.