1
: a minor part (as in a dramatic production)
also
: an actor having such a part
2
: a college athlete who tries out for an athletic team without having been recruited or offered a scholarship
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In it, Super Bowl-winning quarterback Eli Manning goes undercover in heavy prosthetics and a wig and dons the alias Chad Powers to try out as a walk-on quarterback for Penn State football.
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Lauren Huff, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Sep. 2025
McCullough was a walk-on at Ohio State from 2018-20.
—Paulina Dedaj, FOXNews.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Brown and former walk-on Mikey Welsh both had 44-yard receptions in the game.
—Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Aug. 2025
If Pribula goes down, Drinkwitz and the Tigers become dangerously thin at quarterback between true freshman Matt Zollers and walk-on Tommy Lock.
—Maddie Hartley, Kansas City Star, 29 Aug. 2025
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Lauren Huff, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Sep. 2025
McCullough was a walk-on at Ohio State from 2018-20.
—Paulina Dedaj, FOXNews.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Brown and former walk-on Mikey Welsh both had 44-yard receptions in the game.
—Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Aug. 2025
If Pribula goes down, Drinkwitz and the Tigers become dangerously thin at quarterback between true freshman Matt Zollers and walk-on Tommy Lock.
—Maddie Hartley, Kansas City Star, 29 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for walk-on
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“Walk-on.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/walk-on. Accessed 13 Sep. 2025.
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