Crossword clues for pedestrianism
pedestrianism
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pedestrianism \Pe*des"tri*an*ism\, n. The act, art, or practice of a pedestrian; walking or running; traveling or racing on foot.
Wiktionary
n. A form of competitive walking of the nineteenth century, often professional and funded by wagering, from which the modern sport of racewalking developed.
Wikipedia
Pedestrianism was a 19th-century form of competitive walking, often professional and funded by wagering, from which the modern sport of racewalking developed.
Usage examples of "pedestrianism".
Miss Bloomer, having lost her mother in early life, and her father being devoted to the chase, pedestrianism, and other athletic sports congenial to most country gentlemen, the young lady, his only child, had ample scope for indulging her inclinations.
Meanwhile, I expect to shake the dust of the German Great Headquarters from my reportorial feet early tomorrow morning, for pedestrianism is not a safe pastime in the war zone.
But no Pedometrician will ever make a fortune in a mountainous island, like Great Britain, where pedestrianism is indigenous to the soil.
How it contrasts with hot and perspiring pedestrianism, and dusty and deafening railroad rush, and tedious jolting behind tired horses over blinding white roads!
I always meant to learn but - like a lot of things in my life - I never got round to it, and went too quickly from not being able to afford a car at all to having a chauffeuse for my Panther de Ville, and seriously thinking about going straight from pedestrianism to learning how to fly (a helicopter).