Paces
Steps
Steps noun - The course along which a person has walked or is walking in.
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Bugs suggests to the giant a twenty-paces battle, thinking that with the giant's long strides, he'll be out of his hair...until he sees the giant coming at him from the other way having walked around the entire globe on those 20 steps and stopping right in front of him on pace number twenty.
Source: Ten Paces and Turn - Feeling the blue field is too plain, he paces around the lawn trying to think of something to "snap it up a bit"... and carelessly steps on a rake.
- Looney Tunes: Though the above quote from "Jack-Wabbit and the Beanstalk" isn't an example, the short does have an instance where Bugs Bunny tricks the Giant into a duel at ten paces, counting on the latter's giant steps to take him far away.
Source: Too Dumb to Fool
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