Walk

Definition: Walk

Walk

Noun

1. The act of traveling by foot; "walking is a healthy form of exercise".

2. (baseball) an advance to first base by a batter who receives four balls; "he worked the pitcher for a base on balls".

3. Manner of walking; "he had a funny walk".

4. The act of walking somewhere; "he took a walk after lunch".

5. A path set aside for walking; "after the blizzard he shoveled the front walk".

6. A slow gait of a horse in which two feet are always on the ground.

7. Careers in general; "it happens in all walks of life".

Verb

1. Use one's feet to advance; advance by steps; "Walk, don't run!"; "We walked instead of driving"; "She walks with a slight limp"; "The patient cannot walk yet"; "Walk over to the cabinet".

2. Traverse or cover by walking; "Walk the tightrope"; "Paul walked the streets of Damascus"; "She walks 3 miles every day".

3. Accompany or escort; "I'll walk you to your car".

4. Obtain a base on balls, in baseball.

5. Live or behave in a specified manner; "walk in sadness".

6. Take a walk; go for a walk; walk for pleasure; "The lovers held hands while walking"; "We like to walk every Sunday".

7. Give a base on balls to; in baseball.

8. Be or act in association with; "We must walk with our dispossessed brothers and sisters"; "Walk with God".

9. Make walk; "He walks the horse up the mountain"; "Walk the dog twice a day".

10. : walk at a pace.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "walk" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Computing

Literature

Math

Mining

Multilingual Slang

Sports & Leisure

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Walk

Arena

Noun: arena, field, platform; scene of action, theater; walk, course; hustings; stare, boards; (playhouse); amphitheater; Coliseum, Colosseum; Flavian amphitheater, hippodrome, circus, race course, corso, turf, bear garden, playground, gymnasium, palestra, ring, lists; tiltyard, tilting ground; Campus Martins, Champ de Allars; campus.

Business

Part, role, cue; province, function, lookout, department, capacity, sphere, orb, field, line; walk, walk of life; beat, round, routine; race, career.

Conduct

Execution, manipulation, treatment, campaign, career, life, course, walk, race, record.

Journey

Journey, excursion, expedition, tour, trip, grand tour, circuit, peregrination, discursion, ramble, pilgrimage, hajj, trek, course, ambulation, march, walk, promenade, stroll, saunter, tramp, jog trot, turn, stalk, perambulation; noctambulation, noctambulism; somnambulism; outing, ride, drive, airing, jaunt.

Method

Roadway, pathway, stairway; express; thoroughfare; highway; turnpike, freeway, royal road, coach road; broad highway, King's highway, Queen's highway; beaten track, beaten path; horse road, bridle road, bridle track, bridle path; walk, trottoir, footpath, pavement, flags, sidewalk; crossroad, byroad, bypath, byway; cut; short cut; (mid-course); carrefour; private road, occupation road; highways and byways; railroad, railway, tram road, tramway; towpath; causeway; canal; (conduit); street; (abode); speedway.

Motion

Verb: be in motion; Adjective: move, go, hie, gang, budge, stir, pass, flit; hover about, hover round, hover about; shift, slide, glide; roll, roll on; flow, stream, run, drift, sweep along; wander; (deviate); walk; change one's place, shift one's place, change one's quarters, shift one's quarters; dodge; keep going, keep moving;

Region

Arena, precincts, enceinte, walk, march; patch, plot, parcel, inclosure, close, field, court; enclave, reserve, preserve; street; (abode).

Crosswords: Walk

German (walk).

You're the one that has to walk through it. (The Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski)

You're 5 foot and nothin', a hundred and nothin', not one ounce of athletic ability, yet you hung in with the best college football team in the land and are gonna walk out of here with a degree from the University of Notre Dame (Rudy; writing credit: Angelo Pizzo)

Tell me, would you be likely to sue me if I was to beat you right now? I mean, beat you so bad you piss blood and couldn't walk for a month (The Sweet Hereafter; writing credit: Atom Egoyan)

If I ever lay my two eyes on you again, I'm gonna walk right up to you and hammer on that monkeyed skull of yours 'til it rings like a Chinese gong (His Girl Friday; writing credit: Ben Hecht; Charles MacArthur)

Walk with us, and you walk tall (Say Anything; writing credit: Cameron Crowe.)

He do the walk, he do the walk of life (Walk Of Life; performing artist: Dire Straits)

Because you're mine I walk the line ("I Walk the Line"; performing artist: Johnny Cash)

Baby won't you walk with me home (Walk me home; performing artist: Mandy Moore)

Before you walk out of my life (Before You Walk Out My Life; performing artist: Monica)

They walk along like Egyptians (Walk Like an Egyptian; performing artist: The Bangles)

Golf is a good walk spoiled. (references; author: Mark Twain)

Tragedy is if I cut my finger, comedy is if I walk into an open sewer and die. (references; author: Mel Brooks)

Before I judge my neighbor, let me walk a mile in his moccasins. (references; author: Sioux Proverb)

Walk the words you talk, and talk the words you walk. (references; author: unknown)

When you don't know what to do, walk fast and look worried. (references; author: unknown)

Walk (2002)

You'll Never Walk Alone (1974)

Hunter's Walk (1973)

A Walk on Møn (1973)

Short Walk to Daylight (1972)

WALK AWAY RENEE  (performing artist: Four Tops )

Don't Walk Away (performing artist: Jade)

A Long Walk (performing artist: Jill Scott)

Just a Closer Walk With Thee (performing artist: Jimmie Rodgers)

I Walk The Line (performing artist: Johnny Cash)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Approach an Advertising Agency: And Walk Away With the Job You Want (Here's How) (reference)

• Romy's Walk (Abounding Love #2) (reference)

• A Walk Down the Aisle (Afterglow Romantic Walks) (reference)

• Albion Walk (reference)

• A Random Walk Down Wall Street (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Walk (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Walk Away the Pounds 2-Pack: Super Fat Burning + Get Up and Get Started High Calorie Burn (reference)

• Leslie Sansone: Walk Away the Pounds - High Calorie Burn (reference)

• Leslie Sansone - Walk Away the Pounds - Super Fat Burning (reference)

• Lonesome Dove Collection (Lonesome Dove/Streets of Laredo/Dead Man's Walk) (reference)

• The Lonesome Dove Collection (Lonesome Dove/Streets of Laredo/Dead Man's Walk) (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Closer Walk (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Discovery Channel: Walk With Dinosaurs / Zoboomafoo Animal Kids (Jewel Case) (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Baby Elephant Walk - Portabout 5 Carseat (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Shown are several different shots of an NIH employee, Shana Malone in her working environment. Shana works while seated in a wheelchair and can walk with the assistance of crutches. Credit: Ernie Branson (photographer).

This set of images shows a group of senior citizens out for a walk in a park on paved walking trials. See artwork: PV-44. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer).

View of Heidelberg, Germany from Philosophers' Walk. Credit: CDC.

"Car Walk" (movie) by Brent Solly. Two hyperbolic paraboloids create an overpass for people and a tunnel for cars.

Happy to walk away Triangulation party of Norman Sylar. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Sounding pole with walk hydro outfit Hydrographic party of Kathryn Andreen. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Along the nature walk at St. Joseph Peninsula State Park. Credit: America's Coastlines.

The entrance to River Walk. Credit: America's Coastlines.

South Pole Station on a day without a horizon, near "white out" conditions. Flags mark path. One would literally feel like walking in a bowl of milk. There was no surface definition and one had to walk with bent knees because impossible to determine if surface was uneven. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Fred Walton proving that it's optional whether to walk upside-down or right-side up at the South Pole. Just kidding!. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

If we adhere faithfully to the Charter of the United Nations and walk forward in sedate and sober strength seeking no one's land or treasure, seeking to lay no arbitrary control upon the thoughts of men; if all British moral and material forces and convictions are joined with your own in fraternal association, the high-roads of the future will be clear, not only for us but for all, not only for our time, but for a century to come. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

We cannot walk alone. (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1953)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Disputable, however, as might be the taste of such a termination, it was in itself a charming walk, and the view which closed it extremely pretty

I rush in, and save one of the children, and then walk away, leaving the other to drown

I promised him that I would walk there on a Sunday

One time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them

It imparted to the wearer a kind of sacredness, which enabled her to walk securely amid all peril

Monsieur will have to wait at least three or four hours at each relay, and then they go at a walk.

He could stand up, put one foot before the other and walk out softly and then run, run, run swiftly through the dark streets

For a moment he was about to walk on down the road, but instead he sat on the running board on the side away from the restaurant

That I could not walk with any security, for if either of my hind feet slipped, I must inevitably fall

It would surpass the powers of a well man nowadays to take up his bed and walk, and I should certainly advise a sick one to lay down his bed and run.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Walk your dog on a leash. (references)

It helps us run, walk, move, sit, and touch. (references)

Girls who were previously able to walk may stop walking. (references)

Business

Also tower cranes, electric stairways, walk ways, chair lifts, funiculars. (references)

A subsidiary of Shaw Engineering, Texaco, Enron Corp., Phillips Petroleum Co., ABB Lummus Global, Exxon-Mobile, Foster Wheeler, Fluor Daniel, Walk Haydle & Associates, Black & Veatch Pritchard, Rust, Lockwood Green, Williams Brothers and Halliburton Energy Services. (references)

Children

Afghanistan

There are reports that women, who needed prostheses or other aids to walk, virtually were homebound because they were unable to wear the burqa over the prosthesis or other aid. (references)

Economic History

Austria

It's a fine line to walk. (references)

Botswana

Indeed, the Botswana Government is attempting to walk a narrow tightrope on the issue. (references)

Human Rights

Bangladesh

After six hours of detention, she was unable to walk. (references)

India

After his release, he was unable to walk home and had to be carried by his family. (references)

Cote d'Ivoire

The girl had to walk home at night after her release because she no longer had any money for transportation. (references)

Travel

Cote D'ivoire

Walk close to the curb. (references)

Egypt

When you visit a businessperson, don't just walk in, shake hands and get down to business. (references)

Cote D'ivoire

At all times walk confidently and at a steady pace on the side of the street facing traffic. (references)

Worker Rights

Belize

In August physicians in the Orange Walk district conducted a go-slow strike to protest working conditions and pay. (references)

Uganda

Children walk back and forth across the unguarded borders, transporting small amounts of fuel, sugar, coffee, or other commodities. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Walk

Expressions using "walk": angry walk ♦ begin to walk ♦ Bernoulli walk ♦ board walk ♦ boarding walk ♦ can you walk any faster? ♦ cat walk ♦ Cock of the walk ♦ cock walk ♦ code walk ♦ collected walk ♦ extended walk ♦ foot walk ♦ go at a walk ♦ go for a walk ♦ go out for walk ♦ gravel walk ♦ Harris walk ♦ have a walk ♦ jay walk ♦ long walk ♦ measured walk ♦ mincing walk ♦ moon walk ♦ moonlight walk ♦ night walk ♦ parapet walk ♦ quite a walk ♦ random walk ♦ random walk theory ♦ school walk ♦ shady walk ♦ sharp walk ♦ sheep walk ♦ side walk ♦ side walk artist ♦ side walk superintendent ♦ silly walk ♦ sleep walk ♦ space walk ♦ Stand up and walk ♦ suppose we went for a walk ♦ take a walk ♦ take for a walk ♦ take smb. for a walk ♦ take walk for a walk ♦ To walk ♦ To walk after the flesh ♦ To walk after the Spirit ♦ To walk by faith ♦ To walk in darkness ♦ To walk in the flesh ♦ To walk in the light ♦ To walk one's chalks ♦ To walk over ♦ To walk the plank ♦ To walk through the fire ♦ To walk with God ♦ walk about ♦ walk abroad ♦ walk across ♦ walk across the bridge ♦ walk across the street ♦ walk alone ♦ walk among eggs ♦ walk area ♦ walk around ♦ walk away ♦ walk away from ♦ walk away with ♦ walk back ♦ walk backward ♦ walk backwards and forwards ♦ walk barefoot ♦ walk behind ♦ walk by ♦ walk close to ♦ walk down ♦ walk down the street ♦ walk fast ♦ walk in ♦ walk in crocodile ♦ walk in my sleep ♦ walk in on ♦ walk in one's sleep ♦ walk in procession ♦ walk in the rain ♦ walk in the shoes of ♦ walk in! ♦ walk inside! ♦ walk into ♦ walk into a trap ♦ walk into one's food ♦ walk it ♦ walk jauntily ♦ walk lame ♦ walk lamely ♦ walk mincingly ♦ walk of life ♦ walk off ♦ walk off a big meal. Additional references.

Beginning with "walk": walk-about, walk-abouts, walk-around, walk-down, walk-easy, walk-ed, walk-forward, walk-in, walk-in closet, walk-in/out, walk-ins, Walk-mill, Walk-n-lock, walk-off, walk-on, walk-on part, walk-ons, walk-out, walk-outs, walk-over, walk-overs, walk-round, walk-through, walk-to, walk-trip, walk-up, walk-up apartment, walk-way.

Ending with "walk": hill-walk, random-walk, ridge-walk, wall-walk.

Afrikaans

stap (march), opgaan (ascend, climb, go up, tread, walk upon), begaan (accomplish, achieve, act, carry out, do, keep, make, observe, perform, tread, walk upon). (various references)

Albanian

eci (foot, go, hike, hoof, proceed, progress, step, tread). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مرتبة إجتماعية, ‏مشى (carry, foot, go, pan, perambulate, step, traipse, travel, tread), ‏نزهة على الأقدام, ‏حرفة (calling, craft, craftsmanship, occupation, profession, pursuit, trade), ‏تنزه (hike, knock around, mosey, parade, perambulate, picnic, promenade, ramble, stretch one's legs, stroll, tramp, troll), ‏سير (course, file, foot, going, impel, march, motion, pan, pass, procession, progress, propel, running, thong), ‏سلوك (action, antics, attitude, bearing, behavior, behaviour, conduct, course, demeanor, demeanour, goings on, habit, manner, performance), ‏عالم (expert, hemisphere, kingdom, learned, lettered, province, scholar, universe, world), ‏طريق الحارس, ‏المشية (bearing), ‏إجتاز (accomplish, cover, cross, detour, go over, navigate, outdistance, overpass, overshoot, pound, pull through, rise, roll by, traverse, voyage), ‏أدنى درجات السرعة, ‏ظهر (appear, arise, back, brighten up, bring out, come to light, declare, declassify, define, denote, develop, evidence, exercise, exhibit, express, feature, image, indicate, infer, loom, manifest, mark, note, occur, outcrop, parade, peep, play up, poke, pop up, proclaim, produce, reveal, show, show up, spring, surface, turn up), ‏دنيا (sphere, world). (various references)

Asturian

caminar (to walk). (various references)

Aymara

sarnaqaña (to walk). (various references)

Bemba

ukueenda (to walk). (various references)

Blackfoot

iksikka'yi (to walk). (various references)

Bulgarian 

вървеж (gait, pace, tread, walking), държа се (acquit oneself, act, bear, bear up, comport, comport oneself, conduct oneself, demean, deport oneself, hold, hold on, hold one's own, quit, stand out, stick), извървявам (travel, tread), походка (action, deportment, foot, gait, pace, step, tread, walking), пътека (alley, footpath, footway, lode, path, pathway, runner, runway, track, trail, way), бродя (range, rove, stray, tramp, vagabond, wander), любимо място за разходка, алея (alley, ride, vista), живея (be, bide, breathe, burrow, dig, dwell, home, house, indwell, inhabit, live, range, reside, room, seat, subsist), напредвам (advance, develop, forge ahead, gain, get on, go, go ahead, move, move on, move onwards, proceed, progress, push, push forward, push on, push up, roll), обикалям (circle, compass, get about, get round, itinerate, orb, patrol, perambulate, ride, stooge around, stride, tour, travel, trip), движа се (bear, fluctuate, forge ahead, get about, go, heave, move, navigate, ride, run, set, stir, travel, work), обхождам за да измеря площ, явявам се (appear, come, dawn, intervene, materialize, present, raise up, render, roll up, show, show up), вървене (going, walking), вървя (foot, go, gone, move, pass, pike, progress, push on, ride, run, sell, step, track, tread, work), кръстосвам (cross, crossbreed, cruise, hybridize, intercross, intersect, mix, range, sweep), тикам (boost, push, shove, thrust), ход (action, bat, course, current, foot, gait, going, lapse, motion, move, movement, operation, pace, passage, passing, play, ploy, process, race, rate, run, running, stream, swing, tenor, tide, track, train, tread, twist, way), ходене (walking), ходя (date, foot, get about, go, navigate, step), развеждам (divorce, show around, show over, show round, take about, take around, take over), разходка (airing, blow, drive, outing, perambulation, promenade, ramble, stroll, ta-ta, tour, turn), разхождам, разхождам се (have a walk, perambulate, promenade, ramble, take a turn, take a walk), обикновен ход. (various references)

Catalan

caminar. (various references)

Cebuano

molakaw (to walk). (various references)

Chamorro

para man lahu (to walk). (various references)

Chinese 

躒 (move), 走道 (footpath, path, pavement, sidewalk), 踐 (fulfill, tread), 行走 , 步行 (Afoot), 步 (a pace, a step, march, stages in a process). (various references)

Cornish

kerdhes (to walk). (various references)

Czech

procházet(se), chùze (gait, going, pace, passage, step, tread, walking), chodit (come, go, go about, tramp), jít (come, go, step, tread, wend, work), kráèet (March, pace, step, stride, tread), krok (footstep, gait, measure, move, pace, pas, step, tread), pìšina (footpath, path, pathway), cesta (alley, byway, career, channel, crossing, drive, itinerary, jaunt, journey, Lane, passage, path, pathway, ride, road, route, tour, track, trail, travel, trip, venture, voyage, way), procházet se (go through, stroll, wander), vycházka (outing), procházka (constitutional, jaunt, ramble, saunter, stroll, wander), túra (hike, ramble, tour, trek), uèit koho chodit, ujít (come, come undone, cover, go), vést (administer, captain, carry on, channel, conduce, conduct, convey, direct, give, go, head, keep, lead, look, run, Shepherd, spearhead, steer, stock, supervise, throw, wage, wheel), vodit (guide), procházet. (various references)

Danish

spadseretur (stroll), marchere (march), gå (go, march). (various references)

Dutch

lopen (flow, go, go for a walk, go on foot, march, pace, run, stalk, step, stride, stroll, tread). (various references)

Ecuadorian Quechua

purina (to walk, walking). (various references)

Esperanto

suriri (tread, walk upon), promenado (stroll), marŝo, marŝi (march). (various references)

Faeroese

hergonga. (various references)

Farsi 

پیاده رفتن , پیاده رو (Pavement, Peripatetic, Sidewalk), گام زدن (Pace), گردشگاه (Espianade, Park, Promenade, Walkway), گردش پیاده , گردش کننده (Peripatetic), گردش کردن (Promenade, Revolve, Rove, Trip), راه پیما (Marcher), راه رفتن (Gait, Go, Traipse, Tread), راه رونده (Peripatetic), راه رو. (various references)

Finnish

vaeltaa (migrate, roam, stroll, wander, wander about), marssia (march), kulkea jalkaisin (leg it), kulkea jalan (go on foot), kulkea (go, pass, ramble, stroll, travel), käytävä (corridor, passage, path), käynti (call, gait, step, visit), kävely (stroll), kävellä (take a walk), jaloittelu, astunta (gait, pace, step, stepping, treading), astua (become valid, board a ship, come into force, embark, go, go on board, nousta laivaan, step, take effect, tread, tulla voimaan), astella (pace, step, stroll). (various references)

French

promenade (walking), marcher. (various references)

Frisian

rinne (to run). (various references)

German

Spaziergang (child's play, doddle, perambulator, promenade, stroll, walkover, wander), laufen (be in motion, be in progress, be on, be playing, be showing, go, go on, hurry, incur, leak, leg it, melt, operate, race, roll, run, run a race, running, runs, show, work), gehen (ambulate, go, go down, going, head, lead, leave, leaving, look out, market, move, pass, prove, quit, step, to ambulate, to go, walking, work), spazierengehen (go for a stroll, go for a walk, go walkies, to stroll, to take a walk, walking), spazieren (go for a walk, stroll, strut, to stroll), Marsch (Fen, hike, March, Marsh, off with you), Gang (aisle, ambulation, arcade, bout, canal, colonnade, corridor, course, development, duct, errand, gait, gallery, gang, gangway, gear, hallway, heat, landing, lode, meatus, operation, pace, passage, passage(way), passageway, reef, running, speed, stride, thread, tunnel, vein, walkway). (various references)

Greek 

περπατώ. (various references)