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

On Tuesday, after days of tramping around Park City, Utah, griping about the movies and the logistical headaches this mountain resort town presents, I was transported into the Sundance Film Festival that I always hope for, the one in which a movie surprises and moves and maybe delights me, and so successfully makes good on its promise that, after the lights come up, the crowd delivers the festival version of hallelujah with a floor-shaking standing ovation.

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