Procesiones vs pasos

[ROBINDESBOIS]

HOw can we say procesiones y pasos en inglés?
En las procesiones se llevan pasos. Son las procesiones de Semana Santa.

[pjt33]

Procession. Para "paso" mi diccionario dice "float", pero no estoy convencido. ¿Un paso es esto?

[ROBINDESBOIS]

what about religiuous parade. I heard it on TV the other day.

[Rusty]

A procession is a group of people moving along in an orderly, formal way. A religious procession more clearly defines the reason for the procession.

'Religious parade' is used, but I've not personally heard it.

[chileno]

Escrito originalmente por ROBINDESBOIS

HOw can we say procesiones y pasos en inglés?
En las procesiones se llevan pasos. Son las procesiones de Semana Santa.

Procesiones = processions

Paso = passage

Although I have never heard of anything like this. Not even anything of that sort been done in Philadelphia, N.Y or Boston...

[María José]

Escrito originalmente por pjt33

Procession. Para "paso" mi diccionario dice "float", pero no estoy convencido. ¿Un paso es esto?

A paso is a float at least in American English: don't you remember the Sandra Bullock film Hope Floats? The title, if you know the plot, can be read in two different ways (it's about a woman in a small provincial town who back in her teen years was prom queen and at one point took part in a parade, hers being the most ornate float).
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119313/plotsummary
Unless, of course, in Spanish paso is only used in the context of religious parades...

[pjt33]

Escrito originalmente por María José

A paso is a float at least in American English: don't you remember the Sandra Bullock film Hope Floats?

Never heard of it.

A "float" as a vehicle (usually a flat-bed lorry) decorated for a procession is common in en-gb too, but from context I didn't think this is what Robin meant by "paso". Hence my question (which no-one has answered yet).

[María José]

Yes. Un paso in a Spanish Easter procession is exactly what your picture reflects.

[pjt33]

No conozco una palabra inglesa. "At Easter they parade statues of saints through the city". "There are processions of people carrying statues of saints".

[chileno]

Escrito originalmente por María José

Yes. Un paso in a Spanish Easter procession is exactly what your picture reflects.

I see people "passing" and a "float"

Which represents "paso"?

People passing, the float or the whole picture?