What Makes a Parade a Parade?! Hamish & Andy 19 September, 2008 - 3:59 PM

After watching the Olympian parades this week we wanted to know exactly what makes a parade? Why is a parade different from a march? What is the worst parade you have ever seen?

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• Aphroditie says

  Hrmmm I'm just taking a wild guess, but i think a "Parade" is festive, more like a massive party (e.g. Mardi Gras), and a "March" is more for rememberance of a person or event e.g. Anzac Day).

  Posted Friday 19 September, 2008 4:23 PM
• Swanny says

  Wikipedia seems to think they're the same thing :P Also, I think marches are for like a specific cause or issue and a parade is a celebration for something. Plus marches are also when people are actually "marching" and parades don't usually involve marching (I think).

  Posted Friday 19 September, 2008 5:04 PM
• Steph says

  A ridiculous amount of confetti, streamers, sparkle, and colour- not unlike our famed Mardi Gras.....
  bring it campy-or go home...i think thats the general message of a parade.

  Posted Friday 19 September, 2008 6:20 PM
• Billy says

  Parades are parties and Marches are a serious occasion

  Posted Friday 19 September, 2008 8:05 PM
• Ruddy says

  If people aren't half naked, then ain't a parade...

  Posted Friday 19 September, 2008 9:54 PM
• Jay says

  This is what Wikipedia says. A parade (also called march or march past) is a procession of people, usually organized along a street, often in costume, and often accompanied by marching bands, floats or sometimes large balloons. Parades are held for a wide range of reasons, but are usually celebrations of some kind. In Britain the term parade is usually reserved for either military parades or other occasions where participants march in formation; for celebratory occasions the word procession is more usual. In the Canadian Forces the term also has several less formal connotations.

  Posted Saturday 20 September, 2008 1:58 PM
• you know who says

  apparently if u walk in a straight line that's a parade. our teachers got me and my friends in trouble coz we were walking in a straight line coz we were bored. they said that it was annoying and dumb and to stop PARADING through the school. that was coming from a teacher that wants everything perfect and in order. COME ON TEACHERS!!! WE WERE WALKING IN ORDER!!!!!

  Posted Saturday 20 September, 2008 2:22 PM
• Call me .... says

  I think a parade is for the audience/crowd to celebrate something or someones excellence wheras a march is for the people that are marching- a march signifies royalty and rememberance....I love you guys heaps listen 2 ya everyday on the podcasts cos 92.9 don't work in the country xoxo

  Posted Saturday 20 September, 2008 7:16 PM
• BOO-YAH says

  I think its when like a load of people walk down a street with floats and stuff, and a band and stuff, with trumpets, why do you want to know again?
  PS: I don't know what the difference is, i think that a march is just some army guys forwarding marching!
  PSS: If you guys want to make a parade of your own, you guys should go at the front, Andy you can play the trumpet and hamish can sing. Hamish will be a bit sad, but still funny.

  Posted Sunday 21 September, 2008 1:09 PM
• Sara says

  To me, a march is when people are all walking in unison like a band or soldiers. and a parade is when people are not walking in unison.

  Posted Monday 22 September, 2008 5:40 PM

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