Forward
Roll
Roll verb - To form into a round compact mass.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- And you only get the mild derangements if you roll high; if you roll low, you can look forward to 24 hours of schizophrenia.
Source: Mad Oracle -
Context-Sensitive Button: Similar to other third-person shooters, the A button provides a (brief) forward dash, a "combat roll" function, and can be used to move your character in and out of cover.
Source: Video Game / MindJack -
Not used during combat in Remo Williams, but as the protagonist bounds down the side of a steep hill, at one point he drops into a roll and back up onto his feet and kept on going, presumably because he was going too fast or about to fall, and the roll converted the downward momentum into forward.
Source: Unnecessary Combat Roll
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Roll and Forward. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/forward/roll
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Roll or Forward. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/forward/roll.
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