A step in which the rear foot passes the front foot, changing which foot leads.
Most cuts in the German sources are thrown with a passing step, so that the foot on the sword's side comes forward as the cut lands. Stepping slightly off the line as you pass takes you out of the opponent's attack while your own arrives.
"Passschritt" is a modern descriptive term widely used in HEMA practice; the sources describe the stepping without a fixed name.
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