walking
(wɔːkɪŋ )
1. uncountable noun A2
Walking is the activity of taking walks for exercise or pleasure, especially in the country.
Recently I've started to do a lot of walking and cycling.
...a walking holiday.
2. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun]
You can use walking in expressions like a walking disaster or a walking dictionary in order to emphasize, for example, that someone causes a lot of disasters, or knows a lot of difficult words. [humorous, emphasis]
He was a walking encyclopaedia.
If you ever get any ailments there's no problem as he is like a walking chemist's shop.
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Idioms:
be walking on air or be floating on air
to feel very happy or excited because something good has happened to you
I can't believe that I've won. I'm floating on air!
Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers
get your walking papers or be given your walking papers
to be made to leave something such as a job or a relationship. The British expression is be given your marching orders.
It was Vogel's turn to get his walking papers from the board of directors.
Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers
Collocations:
walk miles walking route
He sometimes had to walk miles to get to matches.
Times, Sunday Times
People are then no longer forced to walk miles each day to spend income on batteries or kerosene.
Times, Sunday Times
People walk miles and miles in sub-zero temperatures, often in the middle of the road.
Times, Sunday Times
He'd walk miles just to see her wave from her window.
The Sun
Often we had to walk miles to find wild vegetables to feed ourselves.
Times, Sunday Times
One afternoon we struck out on a simple circular walking route that took us through silver-tipped olive groves and fruit-laden orchards.
Times, Sunday Times
A rescuer said the stranded couple had been 'on a summer walking route'.
The Sun
It has nineteen thematic chapters which often look at a place or a walking route.
The Times Literary Supplement
If you'd rather just stroll in some of the nicest country in the west, pick up walking route maps at the town's tourist centre.
Times, Sunday Times
The hotel sits in 84,000 sq m of countryside and has its own walking route.
Times, Sunday Times
Translations:
Chinese: 步行
Japanese: 歩行
- experienced staff
- experienced teacher
- experienced team
- experience failure
- experience firsthand
- experience frustration
- experience fully
- experience growth
- experience hardship
- experience illness
- experience joy
- experience loneliness
- experience pain
- experience stress
- experience success
- experience teaches
- experience wonder
- experiential
- experiential knowledge
- experiential learning
- experiment
- experimental
- experimental basis
- experimental cinema
- experimental data