"thousands marched behind the coffin"

• walk quickly and with determination

  "without a word she marched from the room"

• force (someone) to walk somewhere quickly

  "she gripped Rachel's arm and marched her through the door"

• walk along public roads in an organized procession as a form of protest

  "unemployed workers marched from Jarrow to London"

• (of something abstract) proceed or advance inexorably

  "time marches on"

"the relieving force was more than a day's march away"

• a piece of music composed to accompany marching or with a rhythm suggestive of marching

  "he began to hum a funeral march"

• a procession organized as a protest

  "a protest march"

• the steady and inevitable development or progress of something

  "the march of history"