tramping
Stomping through mud
Tramping is walking with heavy, steady steps, often suggesting weariness or determination: We could hear him tramping up the stairs.
In New Zealand, tramping means hiking or backpacking through wilderness areas—what Americans call hiking and Britons call rambling.
The word can also describe living as a vagrant, wandering from place to place without settled work or home.
Path through wilderness
- trekkingLong-distance foot travel
- footpathRoute for pedestrians
- ramblingLong-winded and unfocused
- bushwalkingRecreational wilderness hiking
backcountry · hut · mountaineering · walking · pathway · summit · ridge · peak
Dull impact noise
- poundWeight, strike, or kennel
- trampleCrush by stepping
- stampMark-making device
- clompWalk with heavy steps
thump · tread · clatter · clomping · heavy-footed · stamping · crushing · flattening
Sounds of walking
- trudgingWalking with difficulty
- ploddingMoving slowly, heavily
- marchingRhythmic group walking
- trekkingLong-distance foot travel
striding · pacing · stepping · footfall · gait · slogging · hoofing · traipsing
Moving without fixed purpose
- driftingMoving without purpose
- meanderingFollowing a winding course
- ramblingLong-winded and unfocused
- saunteringWalking in unhurried manner
vagabond · wanderlust · gallivanting · traipsing · wayfaring · footloose · itinerant · roving
trail
Path through wilderness
bushwalking · backcountry · hut · mountaineering · walking · pathway · summit · ridge · peak · scrambling
thud
Dull impact noise
clomp · thump · tread · clatter · clomping · heavy-footed · stamping · crushing · flattening · squashing
footsteps
Sounds of walking
trekking · striding · pacing · stepping · footfall · gait · slogging · hoofing · traipsing · rambling
roaming
Moving without fixed purpose
- driftingMoving without purpose
- meanderingFollowing a winding course
- ramblingLong-winded and unfocused
sauntering · vagabond · wanderlust · gallivanting · traipsing · wayfaring · footloose · itinerant · roving · aimless
hobo
Itinerant without fixed address
jungle · railroad · vagrant · transient · migrant · drifter · down-and-out
- New ZealandAuckland, Wellington, Air New Zealand, Kiwis, Christchurch
- exertioneffort, straining, strain, heaving, labor
- trekstrek, mountain trek, wilderness trek, jungle trek, desert trek
- wanderingwandering, wander, wanderer, roaming, roam
- bushwalkingtrail, bush, path, hiking boots, daypack
- Kiwi Activitiesbungee jumping, jet boating, zorbing, bungy, heli-skiing
trampingtiptoeing
Walking on foot-fronts
creeping · padding · gliding · tiptoe · treading lightly
trampingsitting
Being in seated posture
resting · standing still · staying put · lounging · settling
tramp, trampoline, tramped, tramps, tramper, trampers, trampy, tramplings