tramping
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of tramping
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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
ANAHEIM, Calif. — The ebullient thrum of staccato snares, thumping sousaphones, and tramping shoes all acting in unison filled the gray morning air in the parking lot outside Angel Stadium recently.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 31, 2024
The difference is that picking up tickets in person was not an ordeal like tramping through a blizzard to get to a one-room schoolhouse.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 25, 2023
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
“Then? You gotta stay away now! Everybody and his brother's going to be tramping around back there, to see what’s going on. They see you—” He waved his fork violently.
From "Among the Hidden" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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