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
  • Advertisement The expected reopening also eases pressures on the airline industry, which was grappling with staffing shortfalls in airport security and air-traffic control, resulting in delays at major airports across the country just two weeks ahead of the busy Thanksgiving travel season.
    Nik Popli, Time, 11 Nov. 2025
  • These conditions make travel difficult.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 11 Nov. 2025
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
  • Continuous five-hour round-trip treks to the San Francisco International Airport to greet arriving art curators and critics ensued.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 7 Nov. 2025
  • The Atlanta native has announced more shows as part of the global trek, along with plenty of coinciding Wunna Run Club 5K race events to accompany tour dates.
    Michael Saponara, Billboard, 6 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • While driving activists between cities, Liuzzo was killed by members of the Ku Klux Klan after the march.
    Dana Afana, Freep.com, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Our dream of going back to the moon and onto Mars and more distant worlds—not least to ensure our species’ survival before the sun flames out and engulfs most of the solar system—can be seen as just one more step in evolution’s long march.
    Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 22 Oct. 2025
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
  • The full Interconnect Tour departs from Deer Valley Resort in Park City, leading skiers on a traverse along the Wasatch Mountain range with visits to Park City Mountain Resort, Solitude, Brighton, Alta, and Snowbird.
    Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The traverse from Thunderbolt to 14,159-foot Mount Sill tags three other 14,000-foot peaks en route.
    Owen Clarke, Outside, 13 Oct. 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 14 Nov. 2025.

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