walk
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.
Verb 4 meanings
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.”
To "walk free", i.e. to win, or avoid, a criminal court case, particularly when actually guilty.
“If you can’t present a better case, that robber is going to walk.”
Of an object, to go missing or be stolen.
“If you leave your wallet lying around, it’s going to walk.”
To walk off the field, as if given out, after the fielding side appeals and before the umpire has ruled; done as a matter of sportsmanship when the batsman believes he is out.
Noun 4 meanings
A trip made by walking.
“I take a walk every morning.”
A distance walked.
“It’s a long walk from my house to the library.”
An Olympic Games track event requiring that the heel of the leading foot touch the ground before the toe of the trailing foot leaves the ground.
A manner of walking; a person's style of walking.
“The Ministry of Silly Walks is underfunded this year.”
Etymology
From Middle English walk, walke, walken, walkyn, wolken (“to roll, toss, or turn; to walk; to move; to be living; to beat or full; to perform”), a conflation of Old English wealcan (“to move around; to revolve; to roll; to fluctuate; to discuss”) (ġewealcan (“to go, traverse; to roll”)) and Old English wealcian (“to curl, roll up, twist; to wrinkle”); both from Proto-West Germanic *walkan, from Proto-Germanic *walkaną (“to roll, toss, turn, wind; to walk, wander, wend; to full, trample”), *walkōną (“to roll about; to full”), from Proto-Indo-European *walg- (“to twist, turn, move”).
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WALK at a glance
WALK has 4 letters and scores 11 points in Scrabble (W 4 + A 1 + L 1 + K 5) and 12 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #854 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with walk
All rhymes- TALK8
- CHALK14
- SIDEWALK16
- STALK9
- BOARDWALK19
- CATWALK16
- BALK10
- CROSSWALK18
- CAKEWALK21
- BEANSTALK15
- SPACEWALK20
- CROSSTALK15
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