Usually means: Performing on stage; theatrical expression.
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  1. tread the boards: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. tread the boards: Merriam-Webster
  3. tread the boards: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. tread the boards: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. tread the boards: Wiktionary
  6. tread the boards: Dictionary.com
  7. tread the boards: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tread the boards: Legal dictionary

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  1. tread the boards: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tread the boards: Medical dictionary

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  1. tread the boards: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (tread the boards)

verb:  (idiomatic) To work as a theatre actor.
verb:  (figuratively) To write plays for the theatre.

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