walking

Universal Words noun, adjective noun [U] 1 (especially BrE) the activity of going for walks in the countryside for exercise or pleasure: to go walking * walking boots * a walking holiday in Scotland 2 the sport of walking a long distance as fast as possible without running adjective [onlybeforenoun] (informal) used to describe a human or living example of the thing mentioned: She's a walking dictionary (= she knows a lot of words). * That boy's a walking disaster (= he is always having accidents).