1. a long walk usually for exercise or pleasure
2. a commercial steamer for hire; one having no regular schedule
3. a heavy footfall; "the tramp of military boots"
4. a foot traveler; someone who goes on an extended walk (for pleasure)
5. a person who engages freely in promiscuous sex
6. a disreputable vagrant; "a homeless tramp"; "he tried to help the really down-and-out bums"
7. 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 ro
8. cross on foot; "We had to tramp the creeks"
9. travel on on foot, especially on a walking expedition; "We went tramping about the state of Colorado"
10. walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud; "Mules plodded in a circle around a grindstone"

Similar Words: hike, tramp steamer, hiker, tramper, swinger, hobo, bum, roll, wander, swan, stray, roam, cast, ramble, rove, range, drift, vagabond, slog, footslog, plod, trudge, pad

 

Hyponyms: trudge, backpacker, packer, dosser, street person, maunder, gallivant, gad, jazz around, squelch, squish, splash, splosh, slosh, slop

 

Grouped Verbs: stray, err, drift, wander

 

Derivational Morphology: hike, roll, wander, swan, stray, roam, cast, ramble, rove, range, drift, vagabond, swing, vagrant, drifter, floater, wandering, roving, vagabondage, drifting, amble, promenade, saunter, stroll, perambulation, rambler, wanderer, roamer, rover, bird of passage, hiker, tramper, alley cat, straggler, strayer, stamper, stomper, trampler, pad, trudge, trudger, plodder, slogger, slowpoke, stick-in-the-mud, slowcoach, plodding, infantryman, marcher, foot soldier, footslogger