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How to pronounce “tread”
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Pronunciation guide for tread
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of tread with real speech in context.
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- Real speech example
- Step Into Your Journey with Peloton
At Peloton we have, on our treads, leader boards.
- Definition summary
- (intransitive) To step or walk (on or across something); to trample.
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How to pronounce tread
Step Into Your Journey with Peloton

At Peloton we have, on our treads, leader boards.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “tread”
Meaning
- [Verb]
- (intransitive) To step or walk (on or across something); to trample.
- (transitive) To step or walk upon.
- (figuratively, with certain adverbs of manner) To proceed, to behave (in a certain manner).
- To beat or press with the feet.
- To work a lever, treadle, etc., with the foot or the feet.
- To go through or accomplish by walking, dancing, etc.
- To crush under the foot; to trample in contempt or hatred; to subdue; to repress.
- (intransitive) To copulate; said of (especially male) birds.
- (transitive, of a male bird) To copulate with (a hen).
- (transitive) To crush grapes with one's feet to make wine
- [Noun]
- A step taken with the foot.
- A manner of stepping.
- The sound made when someone or something is walking.
- (obsolete) A way; a track or path.
- (construction) A walking surface in a stairway on which the foot is placed.
- The grooves carved into the face of a tire, used to give the tire traction. [from 1900s]
- The grooves on the bottom of a shoe or other footwear, used to give grip or traction.
- (biology) The chalaza of a bird's egg; the treadle.
- The act of avian copulation in which the male bird mounts the female by standing on her back.
- (fortification) The top of the banquette, on which soldiers stand to fire over the parapet.
- A bruise or abrasion produced on the foot or ankle of a horse that interferes, or strikes its feet together.
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