Synonyms for walk

Most common

side-walk · footpath · path · mall · hike · traipse · walkway · pass

Synonyms by meaning

Noun

Verb

Antonyms

run, stop, drive

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Definitions

1. n. 1

   A distance walked.

   It’s a long walk from my house to the library.

2. n. 2

   A path, sidewalk/pavement or other maintained place on which to walk.

3. v. 1

   To full; to beat (cloth) to give it the consistency of felt.

4. v. 2

   To move on the feet by alternately setting each foot (or pair or group of feet, in the case of animals with four or more feet) forward, with at least one foot on the ground at all times. Compare run.

   To walk briskly for an hour every day is to keep fit.

Related words

Word family

walkalator walkathon walker walkie-talkie walk-in walkist walk-on walk-up

Phrases

walk off with walk-out walk back walk of life walk on air walk around walk free perp walk

Is a kind of

move

Forms

Plural

walks → side-walks, footpaths, paths, pavements…

Past participle

walked
e.g. walked → fulled, wauked, strutted, disappeared…

Example sentences

• path Why do I not have the courage to find my own path?
• mall Would you like to go to the shopping mall with me?
• footpath The cottage can be reached only by a narrow footpath.
• hike After the long hike, I slept like a log all night.
• stroll Friend, how about we stroll through the Chinatown?

Popularity over time

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

2 letters

be¹

4 letters

full¹, step¹, pass¹, path¹, mall¹, hike¹, trek¹, hump¹, gait¹, plod¹, wauk

5 letters

march¹, tread¹, tramp¹, strut¹, shank¹, paseo³

6 letters

course¹, stroll¹, stride¹, waddle², trudge¹, toddle²

7 letters

walkway², saunter², traipse¹

8 letters

pavement², traverse², footpath², ambulate³

9 letters

disappear³, promenade³

11 letters

perambulate

13 letters

pedestrianize, pedestrianise

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (paseo³ = 3 syllables).

In other languages

Français

promenade