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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).
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