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Carrying something in a pack on the back
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backpacking
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
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 ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in 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
Word definitions in WordNet
n. carrying something in a pack on the back; "the backpacking of oxygen is essential for astronauts" [syn: packing ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Backpacking is especially popular among students and young people. ▪ a backpacking trip ▪ Last year, he went backpacking in the US. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Equipment Backpacks A wide range of backpacking sacks are available ...
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.