snail's pace
A frustratingly slow rate of speed.
My grandmother drives her car at a snail's pace.
pace
UK /peɪs/ US /peɪs/
noun 6name 6verb 3adj 1prep 1
Definitions
noun
1
A step.
2
A step.
Even at the duel, standing 10 paces apart, he could have satisfied Aaron’s honor.
I have perambulated your field, and estimate its perimeter to be 219 paces.
3
A way of stepping.
Netherlands, one of the pre-tournament favourites, combined their undoubted guile, creativity, pace and attacking quality with midfield grit and organisation.
4
A way of stepping.
5
Speed or velocity in general.
For with ſuch puiſſance and impetuous maine / Thoſe Champions broke on them, that forſt the fly, / Like ſcattered Sheepe, whenas the Shepherds ſwaine / A Lyon and a Tigre doth eſpye, / With greedy pace forth ruſhing from the foreſt nye.
The fastest women runners can run a mile in well under five minutes, but in order to reach that goal they've had to train at a much slower pace over thousands of miles.
adj
1
Describing a bowler who bowls fast balls.
verb
1
To walk back and forth in a small distance.
Groups of men, in all imaginable attitudes, were lying, standing, sitting, or pacing up and down.
As we stood waiting for the departure time with the setting sun twinkling on the great brass dome of our 2-4-0, the sound of church bells was the only one apart from the measured tread of the guard slowly pacing towards his van, and, standing at an open window, I more than once heard the fireman's "Right away!" to his mate in acknowledgement of a desultory wave of the unfurled green flag.
2
To set the speed in a race.
The clubs in London, Manchester, Birmingham, etc., hold various track meetings for races varying from one mile to fifty miles, the longer distances being sometimes paced by tandems.
3
To measure by walking.
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