walking

walking

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈwɔːkɪŋ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈwɔkɪŋ/

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• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ˈwɑkɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -ɔːkɪŋ
• Hyphenation: walk‧ing

Etymology 1

From Middle English walkynge, walkinge, walkinde, walkende, walkand, walkande, from Old English wealcende (attested as Old English wealcendes), from Proto-Germanic *walkandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *walkaną (“to roll, trample, walk”), equivalent to walk +‎ -ing.

Verb

walking

1. present participle of walk

Adjective

walking (not comparable)

1. Incarnate as a human; living.

   Elizabeth knows so many words that they call her the walking dictionary.

   Phil's mother is a walking miracle after surviving that accident.

2. Able to walk in spite of injury or sickness.
3. Characterized by or suitable for walking.

   a walking tour

   good walking shoes

4. Heavily characterized by some given quality.

   She was a walking example of how fitness training can take you a long way.

Derived terms

Terms derived from walking

• walking bass
• Walking Bear
• walking cane
• walking carpet
• walking cast
• walking dictionary
• walking dustbin

 

• walking fern
• walking frame
• walking pace
• walking papers
• walking patient
• walking stick
• walking wounded

 

Translations

incarnate as a human

Arabic: مُتَجَسِّد‎ m (mutajassid) Hungarian: sétáló (hu) Portuguese: humano (pt), ambulante (pt)

able to walk though sick or injured

Bulgarian: ходещ (bg) (hodešt), амбулаторен (ambulatoren)

characterized by or suitable for walking

Bulgarian: пешеходен (pešehoden) Russian: ходячий (ru) m (xodjačij)

Etymology 2

From Middle English walkyng, walkinge, equivalent to walk +‎ -ing.

Noun

walking (countable and uncountable, plural walkings)

1. gerund of walk.
   • 1878, Anthony Trollope, Ayala's Angel

     Mrs Dosett, aware that daintiness was no longer within the reach of her and hers, did assent to these walkings in Kensington Gardens.

   • 2013 September-October, Rob Dorit, “These 'Bots Are Made for Walking”, in American Scientist:

     Walking seems so simple: Just put one foot in front of the other. Yet every step you take is a precarious act. When you walk, your body’s center of mass is rarely located over one of your feet.

Translations

gerund of walk

Arabic: مَشْي‎ (ar) m (mašy) Belarusian: хада́ f (xadá), хадня́ f (xadnjá), хадзьба́ f (xadzʹbá), шага́нне n (šahánnje), хаджэ́нне n (xadžénnje) Bulgarian: хо́дене (bg) n (hódene) Chinese: Mandarin: 走路 (zh) (zǒulù), 步行 (zh) (bùxíng) Czech: chůze (cs) f, chození n Finnish: käveleminen (fi) French: marche (fr) f, randonnée (fr) f, marche à pied f German: Wandern (de) n, Spazierengehen n, Gehen (de) n, Laufen (de) n (colloquial) Hebrew: הֲלִיכָה‎ (he) f (halikhá) Hungarian: gyaloglás (hu) Indonesian: jalan-jalan (id) Japanese: 歩き (ja) (あるき, aruki), 歩行 (ja) (ほこう, hokō) Korean: 보행 (ko) (bohaeng), 걷기 (ko) (geotgi) Macedonian: одење n (odenje) Polish: chód (pl) m, chodzenie (pl) n Russian: ходьба́ (ru) f (xodʹbá), хожде́ние (ru) n (xoždénije), шага́ние (ru) n (šagánije) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ходање n Roman: hodanje (sh) n Slovak: chôdza f, chodenie n Slovene: hoja f Ukrainian: ходьба́ (uk) f (xodʹbá), хода́ f (xodá), ході́ння n (xodínnja), хідня́ f (xidnjá)

See also

• shanks' mare
• shanks' pony