walk

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   an advance to first base by a batter who receives four balls, in baseball

   The player received a walk in the second inning.

2. 2
   noun

   the act of traveling by foot

   walking is a healthy form of exercise

3. 3
   noun

   the act of walking somewhere

   We took a walk after lunch.

4. 4
   noun

   careers in general

   it happens in all walks of life

5. 5
   noun

   a path set aside for walking

   After the blizzard, we shoveled the front walk.

6. 6
   noun

   manner of walking

   They had a funny walk.

7. 7
   verb

   take a walk

   go for a walk

8. 8
   verb

   to lead something or to make something walk

   My neighbor walks the horse up the mountain.

Etymology

From Middle English walken (“to move, walk, roll, turn, revolve, toss”), a conflation of Old English wealcan (“to move round, revolve, roll, turn, toss”) (ġewealcan (“to go, traverse”)) and Old English wealcian (“to curl, roll up”); both from Proto-West Germanic *walkan, from Proto-Germanic *walkaną, *walkōną (“to twist, turn, roll about, full”), from Proto-Indo-European *walg- (“to twist, turn, move”). Cognate with Scots walk (“to walk”), Saterland Frisian walkje (“to full; drum; flex; mill”), West Frisian swalkje (“to wander, roam”), Dutch walken (“to full, work hair or felt”), Dutch zwalken…