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backpacking

verb

Etymology

From backpack + -ing.

  1. inherited from *pakkô✻ — “bundle, pack”
  2. inherited from *pakkō✻
  3. derived from pak
  4. inherited from *pæcca✻
  5. inherited from pak
  6. formed as backpack — “back + pack”
  7. formed as backpacking — “backpack + -ing”

Definitions

  1. present participle and gerund of backpack

  2. Hiking and camping overnight in backcountry with one's gear carried in a backpack.

    • The Australian teens, both from Melbourne, were enjoying a backpacking trip when they became ill after a night out in Vang Vieng. The picturesque rural town in northern Laos has long been a popular backpacking spot.

  3. Low-cost, generally urban, travel with minimal luggage and frugal accommodations.

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for backpacking. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA