Crossword clues for backpacking
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 hiking and camping overnight in backcountry with one's gear carried in a backpack. 2 low-cost, generally urban, travel with minimal luggage and frugal accommodations. vb. (present participle of backpack English)
WordNet
n. carrying something in a pack on the back; "the backpacking of oxygen is essential for astronauts" [syn: packing]
Wikipedia
Backpacking is the outdoor recreation of carrying gear on one's back, while hiking for more than a day. It is often but not always an extended journey, and may or may not involve camping outdoors. In North America tenting is common, where simple shelters and mountain huts found widely in Europe are rare. In New Zealand, tramping is an equivalent term though overnight huts are frequently used. Hill walking is the equivalent in Britain, though backpackers make use of all kinds of accommodation, in addition to camping. Backpackers use simple huts in South Africa. Similar terms used in other countries are trekking and bushwalking.
Backpacking as a method of travel is a different activity, which mainly utilizes public transport during a journey which can last months.
Backpacking is a form of low-cost, independent travel. It includes the use of a backpack that is easily carried for long distances or long periods of time; the use of public transport; inexpensive lodging such as youth hostels; often a longer duration of the trip when compared with conventional vacations; and often an interest in meeting locals as well as seeing sights.
Backpacking may include wilderness adventures, local travel and travel to nearby countries while working from the country in which they are based.
The definition of a backpacker has evolved as travellers from different cultures and regions participate. A 2007 paper said "backpackers constituted a heterogeneous group with respect to the diversity of rationales and meanings attached to their travel experiences. They also displayed a common commitment to a non-institutionalised form of travel, which was central to their self-identification as backpackers." Backpacking as a lifestyle and as a business has grown considerably in the 2000s as a result of low-cost airlines and hostels or budget accommodations in many parts of the world.
Visa laws in many countries such as Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom enable backpackers with restricted visas to work and support themselves while they are in those countries.
Usage examples of "backpacking".
He felt as he usually did after the first hard day of a backpacking or horse-packing camping trip with its inevitable restless first night of fitful half-sleeping on the cold ground.
Dale was wearing quality old boots, but he had brought an expensive North Face backpacking tent in his Gregory expedition backpack, a top-of-the-line L.
Bean goose-down sleeping bag, and a high-tech gas backpacking stove for cooking, with lots of freeze-dried packets of food.
Even though Clare had insisted on taking the backpacking tent in her rucksack, she had set a fast pace.
The day before his backpacking trip began, he stopped in at ARM Headquarters.
So why was he on a solitary backpacking trip in Glacier National Park?
She didn't remember ever seeing Rory in an army jacket, and given the new polypropylene microfleece nature of his backpacking wardrobe, a bulky heavy coat seemed out of character, but she couldn't remember for sure.
Harvey Randall never threw anything away, and he had, in addition to his regular backpacking bag, a U.
Afterward he’d call Bertha and go backpacking with her to catch up with himself.
Across the mud path of a street, several men were working on a bamboo frame of a hut no larger than a big backpacking tent.
They go backpacking, play tennis, maybe sleep together, maybe not.
Why the hell Flora needed a pistachio-green silk tunic to go backpacking, Georgie couldn't imagine.
I had a dog back in Colorado, a fortyfive-kilo Akita who used to go backpacking with me in the Rockies.
He had gone hiking in the Pinnacles that morning, after a week of backpacking.
Our brief, nearly daily conversations over coffee or dinner were more enjoyable and reassuring than a three-day weekend backpacking in the Adirondacks dodging weekend-warrior Weres and slapping mosquitoes.