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tramping

American

[tram-ping] / ˈtræm pɪŋ /

noun

hiking, especially on trails having huts at regular intervals for hikers to use overnight.

Etymology

Origin of tramping

First recorded in 1810–20; tramp + -ing ¹

Example Sentences

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Only in the past couple of years, Sansom explained, did watchful staff members start swooping in to “borrow” Bamberger’s chain saw whenever they caught him tramping around the property with one.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 4, 2026

After poring over existing records and tramping through the English countryside, it was "incredible" to establish there could be two million, she told me.

From BBC • Jun. 29, 2022

“I had no choice,” Dennis, 42, said, while tramping across the acreage to take stock of his losses.

From Los Angeles Times • May 31, 2022

Pack on his back, yellow slicker shedding raindrops, tramping through the woods in the North Bend/Snoqualmie area in the documentary “Hunting Bigfoot.”

From Seattle Times • Aug. 18, 2021

I've been tramping around Arizona for about a month now.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer

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