How to say "procession" in Japanese

• 行列ぎょうれつJLPT N2approx.Common
  noun, suru verbThe word for a procession proper: a line of people moving along in order, as in a parade. Its other senses are a line or queue of people.
  子こどもたちがサーカスの行列ぎょうれつを追おいかけた。↗

  The children chased after the circus parade.
• 列れつJLPT N3approx.Common
  nounMeans a row, line, file, or column — people or things arranged in a line rather than moving as one. For a procession in motion, 行列 is the word; 列 alone seldom expresses that sense.
  この数字すうじの列れつを合計ごうけいしなさい。↗

  Add up this column of figures.

For 'procession' in the sense of a line of people moving in order, as in a parade, use 行列; 列 means a row, line, or column of things arranged in line and is not the usual word for a moving procession.

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• 行列ぎょうれつline
• 列れつrow
• 隊伍たいごrank (of troops)
• 練り物ねりものparade float