tramping

[tram-ping]

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of tramping¹

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

Example Sentences

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.

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But now the hordes of tourists disgorged by the railway every few minutes are taking their toll, tramping across the pastures towards the lake and crushing the flowers.

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I’ve just spent a week tramping across Venice, a city of more than 250 churches, and where did I encounter the most doctrinaire catechism?

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She imagined her great-grandfather Clive Marlowe tramping through these very woods alone when he was just a few years older than Jess.

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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.

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