walkalong
English
Etymology
From walk + along.
Noun
walkalong (plural walkalongs)
- (sociology) A type of interview in which the interviewer and subject walk together while talking.
- 2014, Stories of Cosmopolitan Belonging: Emotion and Location, →ISBN:
- The method of walkalongs, first described by Margarethe Kusenbach (2003), combines interview and observation.
- 2014, Travel and Imagination, →ISBN:
- This chapter draws on our ethnographic analysis of the diaries, walkalongs and followup conversations with Janet, who had recently resigned from a managerial position to look after her first child.
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- A police detail or other group that walks with someone.
- 1988 August 26, Steve Bogira, Hank De Zutter, Ron Dorfman, Robert McClory, David Moberg, Grant Pick, Gary Rivlin, “They Were There”, in Chicago Reader:
- "In the period before, when Martin Luther King was here walking through the different neighborhoods, I was in the walkalongs, the police protection, on the north side and on the south side.
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- A small lift truck used for pallets.
- 1961, Modern Castings - Volume 40, page 44:
- All fork lift trucks, platform trucks, walkalongs, cranes, and four-wheeled trucks should be checked for capacities.
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- A dandy-horse, a 19th-century precursor of the bicycle.
- 1972, George S. Fichter, Bicycling, →ISBN, page 17:
- They were called walkalongs, dandy horses, hobby-horses, or Draisines.
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