WALKING


Meaning of WALKING in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ wɔ:kɪŋ ]

1.

Walking is the activity of taking walks for exercise or pleasure, especially in the country.

Recently I’ve started to do a lot of walking and cycling.

...a walking holiday.

N-UNCOUNT

2.

You can use walking in expressions like a walking disaster or a walking dictionary in order to emphasize, for example, that someone causes a lot of disasters, or knows a lot of difficult words. ( HUMOROUS )

He was a walking encyclopaedia...

ADJ : ADJ n [ emphasis ]

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