Noun
- 1. tramp, hobo, bum, vagrant, drifter, floater, vagabond
- usage: a disreputable vagrant; "a homeless tramp"; "he tried to help the really down-and-out bums"
- 2. swinger, tramp, libertine, debauchee, rounder
- usage: a person who engages freely in promiscuous sex
- 3. hiker, tramp, tramper, pedestrian, walker, footer
- usage: a foot traveler; someone who goes on an extended walk (for pleasure)
- 4. tramp, footfall, footstep, step
- usage: a heavy footfall; "the tramp of military boots"
- 5. tramp steamer, tramp, steamer, steamship
- usage: a commercial steamer for hire; one having no regular schedule
- 6. hike, hiking, tramp, walk
- usage: a long walk usually for exercise or pleasure; "she enjoys a hike in her spare time"
Verb
- 1. tramp, hike
- usage: travel on foot, especially on a walking expedition; "We went tramping about the state of Colorado"
- 2. slog, footslog, plod, trudge, pad, tramp, walk
- usage: walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud; "Mules plodded in a circle around a grindstone"
- 3. tramp, traverse, track, cover, cross, pass over, get over, get across, cut through, cut across
- usage: cross on foot; "We had to tramp the creeks"
- 4. roll, wander, swan, stray, tramp, roam, cast, ramble, rove, range, drift, vagabond, travel, go, move, locomote
- usage: move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment; "The gypsies roamed the woods"; "roving vagabonds"; "the wandering Jew"; "The cattle roam across the prairie"; "the laborers drift from one town to the next"; "They rolled from town to town"
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