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walking - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | walking |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | on foot |
| Synonyms: | afoot, hiking, marching, rambling, wayfaring, promenading, sauntering, strolling, trekking* |
| Antonyms: | running |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | walk |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | move along on foot |
| Synonyms: | advance, amble, ambulate, canter, escort, exercise, file, foot, go, go on foot, hike, hit the road*, hoof it, knock about*, lead, leg*, locomote, lumber, march, meander, pace, pad, parade, patrol, perambulate, plod, prance, promenade, race, roam, rove, run, saunter, scuff, shamble, shuffle, slog, stalk, step, stride, stroll, strut, stump, take a walk, toddle, tour, traipse, tramp, travel on foot, traverse, tread, trek, troop, trudge, wander, wend one's way |
| Antonyms: | run |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hiking |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | tramping |
| Synonyms: | marching, rambling, walking, wandering, backpacking, exploring, hitchhiking |
| Main Entry: | wayfaring |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | traveling |
| Synonyms: | gadabout, itinerant, nomadic, peripatetic, rambling, roving, vagabond, vagrant, walking, wandering, drifting, globe-trotting, itinerate, jet-setting, journeying, perambulant, perambulatory, rubbernecking, voyaging |
| Antonyms: | unmoving |
| Main Entry: | marching |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | advancing |
| Synonyms: | hiking, proceeding, walking, checking, filing, pacing, parading, patrolling, policing, stepping, tramping |
| Main Entry: | active |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having movement |
| Synonyms: | alive, astir, effective, efficacious, flowing, hasty, mobile, movable, moving, operating, operative, progressive, pushing, rapid, restless, rolling, running, rushing, rustling, simmering, speedy, traveling, walking, working, at work, bustling, exertive, functioning, going, impelling, in force, in play, in process, shifting, speeding, streaming, swarming, turning |
| Notes: | active knowledge is the knowledge of a language which a user actively employs in speech or writing, as opposed to passive knowledge, which is what a person understands in what he/she hears or reads |
| Antonyms: | dormant, immobile, inactive, inert, lazy, sluggish, abeyant |
| Main Entry: | afoot |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | traveling by foot |
| Synonyms: | hiking, walking, on foot |
| Main Entry: | moving |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | mobile |
| Synonyms: | changing, flying, jumping, movable, nomadic, portable, roaming, roving, running, unstable, unsteady, walking, advancing, climbing, evolving, going, motile, progressing, shifting, traversing, unfixed, unsteadfast |
| Antonyms: | fixed, immobile, permanent, stationary, unmoving |
| Main Entry: | desert |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | abandon, defect |
| Synonyms: | abscond, bail out*, beach, betray, bolt, check out*, chuck, cop out*, decamp, depart, duck*, escape, flee, fly, forsake, go, jilt, leave, leave in the lurch, light, maroon, opt out, pull out, quit, relinquish, renounce, resign, split*, strand, take off, tergiversate, throw over, vacate, walk, apostatize, crawl out, give up, go AWOL, go back on, go over the hill, go west, leave high and dry, leave stranded, play truant, run out on, sneak off, take a hike, violate oath |
| Antonyms: | aid, assist, come back, help, stay, support |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | haunt |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | visit as a spirit |
| Synonyms: | agitate, agonize, annoy, appall, appear, bedevil, beset, besiege, come back, disquiet, dwell, float, frighten, harass, hound*, hover, infest, inhabit, intrude, madden, manifest, materialize, molest, nettle, obsess, overrun, permeate, pervade, pester, plague, possess, prey on, rack*, reappear, recur, return, rise, spook*, tease, terrify, terrorize, torment, trouble, vex, voodoo*, walk, worry, be ever present, harrow, stay with, weigh on |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | knock about/knock around |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | roam, wander |
| Synonyms: | drift, ramble, range, rove, traipse, travel, walk |
| Antonyms: | stay, wait |
| Main Entry: | move |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | be in motion, put in motion |
| Synonyms: | actuate, advance, blow, budge, bustle, carry, change, climb, crawl, cross, depart, dislocate, disturb, drift, drive, exit, flow, fly, get off, glide, go, hurry, impel, jump, leap, leave, march, migrate, position, proceed, progress, propel, pull out, push, quit, remove, roll, run, scram, shift, ship, shove, split, stir, switch, take off, transfer, transport, transpose, travel, traverse, walk, withdraw, get away, get going, go away, head for, locomote, off-load, relocate, skip out |
| Antonyms: | fix, pause, remain, stay, stop |
| Main Entry: | ramble |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | wander about; travel aimlessly |
| Synonyms: | amble, bat around*, branch off, clamber, climb, cruise, depart, digress, divagate, diverge, drift, extend, fork, gad, gallivant, knock about*, meander, perambulate, percolate, promenade, range, roam, rove, saunter, scramble, snake, sprawl, spread, straddle, straggle, stray, stroll, trail, traipse, turn, twist, walk, wind, zigzag, be all over the map, excurse, get sidetracked, knock around, peregrinate, sprangle, spread-eagle |
| Antonyms: | stay, be direct |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | roam |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | wander about |
| Synonyms: | bum*, drift, gad, gallivant, hike, hit the road*, meander, prowl, ramble, range, rove, saunter, straggle, stray, stroll, traipse, tramp, travel, traverse, trek, vagabond, walk, bum around, knock around, peregrinate, struggle along |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | see |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | accompany, guide |
| Synonyms: | attend, call, come by, conduct, date, direct, drop in, encounter, escort, lead, look up, meet, pilot, receive, route, shepherd, show, steer, usher, visit, walk, associate with, bear company, come over, consort with, drop by, go out with, go with, keep company with, pop in, run into, speak to, stop by, stop in, take out |
| Antonyms: | turn loose |
| Main Entry: | step |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | move foot to walk |
| Synonyms: | advance, ascend, dance, descend, go down, hoof, mince, pace, prance, skip, stride, tiptoe, traipse, tread, trip, troop, walk, ambulate, go backward, go forward, go up, move backward, move forward |
| Main Entry: | travel |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | journey on a trip or tour |
| Synonyms: | adventure, carry, cover, cover ground, cross, cruise, drive, explore, fly, get through, go, go abroad, go camping, go into orbit, go riding, hop*, jaunt, jet*, junket*, knock around, make a journey, make one's way, migrate, motor, move, overnight, proceed, progress, ramble, roam, rove, sail, scour, set forth, set out, sightsee, take a boat, take a plane, take a train, take a trip, tour, transmit, traverse, trek, vacation, visit, voyage, walk, wander, weekend, wend |
| Antonyms: | remain, stay |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | traverse |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cross over; travel |
| Synonyms: | bisect, bridge, cover, crisscross, cross, do, go over, intersect, negotiate, pace, pass over, perambulate, ply, quarter, range, roam, span, track, transverse, tread, walk, wander, cut across, decussate, go across, move over, pass through, peregrinate, travel over |
| Main Entry: | trek |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | journey |
| Synonyms: | foot, hike, hit the road*, march, migrate, plod, range, roam, rove, slog, traipse, tramp, travel, trudge, walk, be on the move, be on the trail |
| Antonyms: | stay |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | wade |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | plod, often through water |
| Synonyms: | attack, attempt, bathe, drudge, fall to, go for, initiate, labor, launch, paddle, pitch in, splash, start, stumble, tackle, toil, trek, walk, ford, get feet wet, get stuck in, jump in, light into, set about, set to, tear into, work through |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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