on foot

Idioms  

1. Walking or running, not using a vehicle. For example, There's no road to the lodge; we have to get there on foot. [c. 1300] Also see hoof it; on one's feet; on the right foot.

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Example Sentences

Then, she said, she and her daughters were escorted to the border to cross on foot into Mexico — where they knew no one and had no money.

From Salon

The prosecution said the recording gave McCullagh time to travel to Lurgan on foot and by bus to Natalie's home.

From BBC

It turned out that Christoffels belonged to an almost vanished trade, the itinerant clockmender who trudged on foot throughout the land, regulating and repairing the tall pendulum clocks that were the pride of every Dutch farmhouse.

From Literature

We passed a number of local people on foot and in horse-drawn wagons.

From Literature

“Well, children,” she said, brushing the snow off her coat, “we have no house to go back to, and certainly there will be very little left of the city. So I have been thinking. There is only one place we can go to. We shall go to the farm, to Uncle Manfred and Aunt Lotti. It is a long, long way to go on foot, but there is nowhere else.”

From Literature

Related Words

• nomadic
• peripatetic
• roving
• wandering