as in backpack
a soft-sided case designed for carrying belongings especially on the back
hikers carrying their food and water in rucksacks
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Recent Examples of rucksack
The beautiful image showed Charlotte sitting in a wild, rural landscape wearing camouflage and a rucksack, while smiling beautifully into the camera.
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Stephanie Petit, People.com, 2 May 2025
DeSantis wants to protect kids from childhood for the same reason my great grandfather put a tiny rucksack on my 5-year-old mother’s shoulders and sent her into the cotton fields to pick with the adults — cheap labor.
—Pat Beall, Sun Sentinel, 11 Apr. 2025
On one end of the spectrum are relatively tiny flying bombs, small enough to be carried in a rucksack.
—IEEE Spectrum, 25 Mar. 2022
In their rucksacks, the duo packed a foldout paper map of the itinerary, few clothes and ample medicine (antibiotics, malaria pills, iodine drops for the water).
—Laura Manske, Forbes.com, 4 Apr. 2025
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Stephanie Petit, People.com, 2 May 2025
DeSantis wants to protect kids from childhood for the same reason my great grandfather put a tiny rucksack on my 5-year-old mother’s shoulders and sent her into the cotton fields to pick with the adults — cheap labor.
—Pat Beall, Sun Sentinel, 11 Apr. 2025
On one end of the spectrum are relatively tiny flying bombs, small enough to be carried in a rucksack.
—IEEE Spectrum, 25 Mar. 2022
In their rucksacks, the duo packed a foldout paper map of the itinerary, few clothes and ample medicine (antibiotics, malaria pills, iodine drops for the water).
—Laura Manske, Forbes.com, 4 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for rucksack
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rucksack
backpack
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The shorts were a different color, my shoes, the backpack, the location.—
Becca Longmire,
People.com,
15 July 2025
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Original price: $42.99 Carry your laundry to and from the laundry room with ease with this backpack duffel laundry bag.—
Christopher Murray
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FOXNews.com,
14 July 2025
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“Rucksack.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rucksack. Accessed 23 Jul. 2025.
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