Police say around 27,000 people marched peacefully from the site of last year's protests to Democracy Monument.
Nineteen of the group's leaders and dozens of supporters remain in detention after protests and clashes with security forces last year.
Sunday's demonstration marked the second big gathering by the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD) since the government lifted a state of emergency in Bangkok on 22 December.
The red-shirts agreed to spend only two hours in the area on Sunday before moving on. One of the leaders, Jatuporn Prompan, said the group was trying "to make less trouble for people who live and work around the protest sites".
At the rally on Sunday, Mr Jatuporn also announced that the group would only hold one demonstration a month, as opposed to the two which had been planned.
The latest protest shows the continuing strength of the movement, which draws much of its support from the rural and urban working class.
Many followers are also supporters of the former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who was ousted in a coup in 2006.
They say red-shirt activists involved in protests have been treated much worse than so-called "yellow-shirt" protesters involved in demonstrations against allies of Thaksin Shinawatra who were then in power.
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