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walking

[ US /ˈwɔkɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /wˈɔːkɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
  1. the act of traveling by foot
    walking is a healthy form of exercise
ADJECTIVE
  1. close enough to be walked to
    the factory with the big parking lot...is more convenient than the walk-to factory
    walking distance
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  • Mr Boardman said: ‘I was out walking with my wife and dog when we happened across a little cove and we found the creature in the flotsam that had been washed up.’
  • After a bit of a stickybeak at the Queen's Scottish residence of Holyroodhouse, we made the most of the remaining daylight walking the length of the Royal Mile through the Old Town back to the castle, stopping by the Heart of Midlothian. TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com
  • The clergyman and his son pricked up their ears at this, photography being with them only a degree less absorbing a pastime than that of walking; Ron awoke suddenly to the remembrance that his half-plate camera had never been unpacked since his arrival; and the three vied with each other in asking questions about the proposed excursion, and in urging that a date should be fixed. Big Game A Story for Girls
  • After squinting in an attempt to discern a couple of features to make the object recognizable, he began walking swiftly towards it.
  • After all this time she was alive, living, breathing, and walking on the earth.
  • I don't think they play at all fairly," Alice began, in rather a complaining tone, "and they all quarrel so dreadfully one can't hear oneself speak and they don't seem to have any rules in particular; at least, if there are, nobody attends to them -- and you've no idea how confusing it is all the things being alive; for instance, there's the arch I've got to go through next walking about at the other end of the ground -- and I should have croqueted the Queen's hedgehog just now, only it ran away when it saw mine coming! Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
  • However, O'Kane's favourite pastime is hillwalking in the Wicklow hills.
  • She had sore feet from walking on hard pavements all day.
  • We ended up walking the streets with our suitcases and had to spend the night in a flea-bitten youth hostel, with lots of old men and young lads.
  • Eleanor, out walking, wheeling the wicker perambulator in the sharp October sunshine. THE GOLDEN LION
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