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What word do you use for this autumn based activity

89 replies

MrsPeacockInTheLibrary · 27/08/2021 00:03

You are in a park in autumn and there are piles of leaves on the ground.

What word, if any, would you use to describe moving through those leaves?

e.g. They were / They through the leaves.

Testing a theory!

OP posts:
sunshineandshowers21 · 27/08/2021 00:05

frolicking! but that might just be me that enjoys a frolic through the leaves 😂

Supersimkin2 · 27/08/2021 00:05

rustling

SecondCityShark · 27/08/2021 00:05

Jumping/jumped?

Kanaloa · 27/08/2021 00:05

Running round in leaves. Wouldn’t really think of it as a specific activity, just the way we get through the park in October.

SecondCityShark · 27/08/2021 00:06

Or bounded.

StarryStarrySocks · 27/08/2021 00:07

I think I'd say kicking through the leaves.

JuneOsborne · 27/08/2021 00:07

They crunched through the leaves?

Don't kids always run through kicking the leaves high up so it rains leaves? And dog shit.

LongDissidence · 27/08/2021 00:07

Wading

HPLikecraft · 27/08/2021 00:09

Swishing!

teaandpastries · 27/08/2021 00:10

Swishing or trudging

LoveFall · 27/08/2021 00:10

Scuffling?

R0tational · 27/08/2021 00:11

Trampling and wading

Scarby9 · 27/08/2021 00:19

Shushling shushulled
(Same sort of rhythm as with russled)

Scarby9 · 27/08/2021 00:20

I would only ever use that verb for the way you move through autumn leaves.

WeeWeeWeeeeeeeee · 27/08/2021 00:20

Stomping/Stomped

lucie8881 · 27/08/2021 00:21

Crunched through the leaves

chipsandgin · 27/08/2021 00:22

Trudging

AfterSchoolWorry · 27/08/2021 00:22

Kicking

KingofQueens · 27/08/2021 00:23

Swishing
Scrunching

Luckingfovely · 27/08/2021 00:23

Scuffling, of course!

PalmarisLongus · 27/08/2021 00:24

Kicking the leaves.

Blindleadingtheblind · 27/08/2021 00:24

@Scarby9

Shushling shushulled (Same sort of rhythm as with russled)
Are these actual words??
Judystilldreamsofhorses · 27/08/2021 00:29

Kicking
Gallumphing

Scarby9 · 27/08/2021 00:30

@Blindleadingtheblind
Well, they are the 'words' I was brought up using to describe precisely this activity. I've never tried to write them down before, and I'm not 100% happy with the spelling ( hence my inclusion of the comparison word).
They may not be in any dictionary, but OP asked what I would say - and that's what I and all my family would say!

EBearhug · 27/08/2021 00:34

Kicking or shuffling, depending on just how they are moving through them.