Provided with a step or steps; having a series of offsets or parts resembling the steps of stairs.

The act of taking a step.

present participle of step

To drive fast; to step on the accelerator. / (idiomatic) To act quickly.

simple past tense and past participle of step

(intransitive) To move the foot in walking; to advance or recede by raising and moving one of the feet to another resting place, or by moving both feet in succession.

A prefix used before father, mother, brother, sister, son, daughter, child, and so forth, to indicate that the person being identified is not a blood relative but is related through the marriage of a parent.

An advance or movement made from one foot to the other; a pace. / A rest, or one of a set of rests, for the foot in ascending or descending, as a stair, or a rung of a ladder.

(colloquial) A stepchild. / (slang) A stepsibling.

Of a number of people walking, or especially marching, synchronously, so that that footfalls occur at the same time.