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
  • Marco Calò, professor in the UNAM's Geophysics Institute's vulcanology department and the project leader, invited The Associated Press to accompany the team on its most recent expedition, the last before its research on the volcano will be published.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 11 Jan. 2026
  • In January 1899, the American gunboat USS Wilmington set out on an expedition to Venezuela, steaming up the Orinoco River toward the country’s interior.
    Nathan Hodge, CNN Money, 10 Jan. 2026
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
  • Told in a lingua franca of philosophy and academic jargon, Lucky’s speech has something to do with the collapse of reason and logic, and the futility of human progress, which is ultimately what tramps Estragon (Reeves) and Vladimir (Winter) are up against, too.
    Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 17 Dec. 2025
  • 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

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“Walkabout.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/walkabout. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.

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