Crossword clues for backpacker
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
backpacker \back"pack*er\ n. one who backpacks; as, two backpackers were mauled by bears in Yellowstone this week.
Wiktionary
n. A traveler whose luggage consists of a backpack; ''especially'', such a traveler who uses hostels, public transport, and other inexpensive services.
WordNet
n. a hiker who wears a backpack [syn: packer]
Wikipedia
Backpacker or backpackers may refer to:
- A person who participates in:
- Backpacking with animals, using pack animals to carry gear while backpacking
- Backpacking (travel), low-cost, independent, international travel
- Backpacking (wilderness), trekking and camping overnight in the wilderness
- Ultralight backpacking, a style of wilderness backpacking with an emphasis on carrying as little as possible
- In the context of Latin American drug smuggling, a Mochilero (drug courier)
- Looking for backpacking equipment
- Backpacker (magazine), an American magazine about wilderness hiking and adventure
- Backpacker (series), a series of Swedish computer games in which the player travels the world and answers questions about each locale
- Backpacker (US slang), American urban slang for graffiti artists and listeners of alternative hip hop
- Backpackers (TV series), an Australian TV series following travelling backpackers in Europe
- Backpackers (web series), a Canadian comedy web series, later adapted for American television
- Backpacker, Australian and New Zealander slang for inexpensive sleeping accommodations, such as a hostel
Backpacker Magazine is an American publication that features information on wilderness hiking and adventure. It has been published since 1973. Backpacker magazine is currently published by Active Interest Media and is based in Boulder, Colorado. The magazine moved from Emmaus, Pennsylvania to Boulder in August 2007.
In US urban slang, a backpacker is one who listens to backpacker hip hop ( alternative hip hop).
In the 1980s, backpacker was a slang term for a graffiti artist who always wore a backpack containing his music collection and graffiti equipment. Typically, the music collection would consist of local alternative hip hop artists. The term gradually came to refer to someone with this musical taste, and now has almost nothing to do with graffiti (although certain "backpackers" may participate in graffiti "tagging.") It later became a derogatory epithet for alternative hip hop.
To the desert trackers of the American southwest, the term backpacker is slang for a drug trafficker.
Backpacker is a series of Swedish computer games. The games are travel simulators where the player travels the world and answers questions. The graphics in the games consists mostly of static images. The series has never been released for game consoles.
The series was originally developed by Tati Mixedia and Aniware AB and published by BMG Interactive Entertainment. After Backpacker 2, Pan Vision AB took over the series.
Usage examples of "backpacker".
All seven rows of the bleachers were full, the audience consisting of resort workers, fishermen and their families, with a smattering of tourists, mainly backpackers, but also a group of immensely fat Russian women who had been transported from a hotel farther along the beach in cyclos pedaled by diminutive Vietnamese men.
From the standpoint of many backpackers and relief workers, my journey was not arduous.
With the collapse of the Soviet Union and the loosening of travel restrictions inside China, backpackers could now go by land from St.
Instead of Western businessmen in Kashgar, we see only these backpackers, who have nothing to spend.
Three backpackers in the rear of the bus did not bother to look out the window, absorbed as they were in their paperback novels.
Though this might seem like very little, it was a fortune compared to what the other backpackers I had met were spending.
In November 1994, while I was in Cambodia, I would read a Reuters dispatch describing the eventual murder of the backpackers by the Khmer Rouge, the recovery of the victims’ bodies, and the autopsies that followed.
The expats, therefore, were a potential target of the Khmer Rouge, which, as the torture-murder of the three Western backpackers had made clear (not to mention the periodic kidnapping and murder of scores of Cambodian villagers), had an undiminished appetite for cruelty.
It turns up in novels, and there was an old flat movie, and an even older opera, and-- have you heard that old song the backpackers sing around the campfires?
Out of indecision, Arkady was swept up by the crowd and marched across the street to the base of the memorial church, grey and shattered as a tree trunk struck by lightning, where backpackers sprawled on the stairs to watch a street magician.
Departing from Zaventem Airport the next day was a leased, decrepit Aeroflot plane whose passengers were a motley, rowdy group of backpackers who had paid bargain-basement prices for the "Moscow Nights" package tour of Russia--three nights and four days in Moscow, followed by an overnight train to St.
One of the backpackers was a middle-aged man wearing green fatigues, a baseball cap, and a bushy brown beard.
It turns up in novels, and there was an old flat movie, and an even older opera, and—have you heard that old song the backpackers sing around the campfires?
I greatly respect what the backpackers were doing on their own, but I'm glad for myself that I waited to go until I had enough money to hire expertise that would enrich the trip beyond anything I personally brought to it.
The lodge was usually booked weeks ahead and backpackers, disembarking from the ships, often had to hike eight or more miles out before finding a camp for the night.