cover ground

English

Alternative forms

• cover the ground

Verb

cover ground (third-person singular simple present covers ground, present participle covering ground, simple past and past participle covered ground)

1. To move across an area; to traverse a certain distance.
   • 2001, Salman Rushdie, Fury: A Novel, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 4:

     A few times there we even followed you, but you weren’t going anywhere, just wandering, just covering ground.

2. To do a certain amount of work; to make progress towards an end.

   I'll cover some more ground with the essay after my vacation.

See also

• ground cover
• pound the pavement

Further reading

• “cover ground”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• “cover ground”, in Collins English Dictionary.

Anagrams

• ground cover, groundcover