tramping
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English
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Verb
[edit]tramping
- present participle and gerund of tramp
Noun
[edit]tramping (countable and uncountable, plural trampings)
- The act or sound of one who tramps, or walks heavily.
- 1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC:
- Now we was in the lean-to, and heard trampings close by outside. So we crept to the door, and Tom stopped us there and put his eye to the crack, but couldn't make out nothing, it was so dark
- (Australia, New Zealand, uncountable) Walking in the countryside for pleasure or sport; hiking