How to say "pace" in Japanese

• ペースCommon
  nounThe word you want for pace as the speed at which someone moves, runs, or works — keeping up the pace in a race, or working at one's own pace.
  国民総生産こくみんそうせいさんの伸のびはまったく遅おそいペースです。↗

  The GNP has been growing at a snail's pace.
• 速度そくどJLPT N3approx.Common
  nounFirst of all 'speed' or 'velocity'; use it for pace only when you mean actual, measurable speed of movement, as of a vehicle, not the rhythm of work or life.
  その男おとこは一定いっていの速度そくどで車くるまを運転うんてんした。↗

  The man drove his car at a uniform speed.
• ピッチCommon
  nounPace as rhythm or tempo: how steadily and quickly an activity repeats or proceeds. Often used of work tempo, as in noting that someone's working pace has picked up.
• 運びはこびCommon
  noun, noun (suffix)Covers pace as progress — how smoothly or quickly events, a story, or negotiations move along. It points to the course something takes, and is seldom the word for physical speed.
• 緩急かんきゅうCommon
  nounPace as the alternation of fast and slow rather than one fixed speed; the word for talking about varying tempo — speeding up and slowing down — in speech, music, or work.

Use 「ペース」 for pace as someone's speed of moving or working, 速度 for measurable speed, 「ピッチ」 for the rhythm of ongoing activity, 「運び」 for how events progress, and 緩急 for alternating fast and slow.

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• ペースpace
• 速度そくどspeed
• ピッチpace
• 運びはこびprogress
• 緩急かんきゅうhigh and low speed
• 足並みあしなみpace
• 歩調ほちょうpace
• 歩幅ほはば(length of one's) step
• 足取りあしどりgait
• 歩みあゆみpace
• ステップstep (movement)
• 足元あしもとgait
• めりはりvariation
• 足あしpace