break stride

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English

Verb

break stride

  1. To cease walking or running at the same gait, especially with the result of interrupting one's forward momentum.
    • 2011 January 22, Ian Hughes, “Arsenal 3 - 0 Wigan”, in BBC‎[1]:
      When the second goal came, it was a belter - Fabregas launching an inch-perfect ball over the top for Van Persie to volley in without breaking stride.
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