walkabout

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Recent Examples of walkabout Stay dry on your leaf peeping walkabouts with a water-tight shell like the REI Co-op Rainier Rain Jacket, now 30 percent off. Olivia Young, Travel + Leisure, 22 Aug. 2025 Kate Middleton makes her first royal appearance on a walkabout in Wales As Princess Diana had done before her, Kate took a royal walkabout in Wales with her husband-to-be, completing her very first royal duty. Nicole Briese, People.com, 29 Apr. 2025 Both Charles and Diana stopped in front of her during a walkabout on that 1983 tour. Rachel Burchfield, Forbes.com, 24 Apr. 2025 Today’s top stories Trump’s rhetorical walkabouts: A sign of ‘genius’ or cognitive decline? Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2024 See All Example Sentences for walkabout
Recent Examples of Synonyms for walkabout
Noun
  • Sharing this could save a trip, a holiday or at least someone’s sanity.
    The Kim Komando Show, FOXNews.com, 8 Nov. 2025
  • While the benefit only applies to travel with that specific airline, this can easily save you $70 in fees per person per round-trip flight.
    Harlan Vaughn, CNBC, 8 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Or check out some of Quince’s other popular travel tote bag styles below.
    Michelle Baricevic, Travel + Leisure, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Expedia Group supports travel discovery and booking.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 7 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Ultimately, Victor and the Creature wind up in the Arctic Circle, where a Danish ship is stuck in the ice on an expedition.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 7 Nov. 2025
  • For those who need extended performance, an extra battery doubles the capacity to 3,096Wh – ideal for multi-day camping or van expeditions.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 5 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Expect a three- to four-hour trek of moderate difficulty, but the majestic views of the rocky coastline from the top are worth the trip.
    Liz Provencher, Travel + Leisure, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Since the gorillas move across a wide area, the trek is unpredictable in length and terrain.
    Holden Frith, TheWeek, 9 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • The Miami Hurricanes are at home, while the entire state of Indiana – save for some in West Lafayette – is content to abandon their homes to enjoy this unexpectedly stupefying playoff march.
    Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 10 Jan. 2026
  • Sacramento police diverted traffic from N Street between Fifth and Sixth streets downtown as the march proceeded, Gamble said.
    Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 9 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Ahead of any hike in Brown County State Park, be sure to do your due diligence.
    Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 8 Nov. 2025
  • In this section of the hike, as the trail ran parallel and relatively close to the paved State Park Road, a deer and fawn were spotted munching on the grass in an open field.
    Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Fans watched Rory traverse three major relationships across the series’s seven original seasons.
    Justin Kirkland, Entertainment Weekly, 27 Nov. 2025
  • Messages, videos and protest art traverse continents in seconds, inspiring solidarity but also inviting chaos.
    Amir Daftari, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • As historian Kelly Lytle Hernández writes, one thing that stood in the way of this vision was the figure of the tramp.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Help, of course, isn’t coming—not over the Indian Ocean, not in the nursing home, not on the tramps’ moonlit road.
    Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2025

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“Walkabout.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/walkabout. Accessed 10 Jan. 2026.

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