tramping

[ tram-ping ]

noun

1. hiking, especially on trails having huts at regular intervals for hikers to use overnight.

Word History and Origins

Origin of tramping¹

First recorded in 1810–20; tramp + -ing ¹

Example Sentences

But now the hordes of tourists disgorged by the railway every few minutes are taking their toll, tramping across the pastures towards the lake and crushing the flowers.

From BBC

I’ve just spent a week tramping across Venice, a city of more than 250 churches, and where did I encounter the most doctrinaire catechism?

From New York Times

She imagined her great-grandfather Clive Marlowe tramping through these very woods alone when he was just a few years older than Jess.

From Literature

The difference is that picking up tickets in person was not an ordeal like tramping through a blizzard to get to a one-room schoolhouse.

From Seattle Times

Sometimes his characters resided in a romantic fantasy, while — not infrequently — they also found themselves tramping through one of McCarthy's famously hellish fever dreams.

From Salon