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"Put one foot in front of the other, and soon you'll be walking out the door...." That's right, putting your feet into motion is what you need to do to walk.

The words walk isn't just used to describe the action of taking one step in front of the other. In baseball, it's a term for when a batter receives four balls and is given the right to walk to first base. When a horse's gate is slow and it keeps two feel always on the ground, that's a walk. When you choose a particular path for yourself in life, you could call that a walk of life.

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: walk

1	v n	use one's feet to advance; advance by steps the act of traveling by foot
2	v n	obtain a base on balls (baseball) an advance to first base by a batter who receives four balls
3	v n	live or behave in a specified manner careers in general

FULL DEFINITIONS OF: walk

v use one's feet to advance; advance by steps

“Walk, don't run!”

“We walked instead of driving”

“She walks with a slight limp”

“The patient cannot walk yet”

“Walk over to the cabinet”

Synonyms: take the air
take a walk; go for a walk; walk for pleasure

Antonyms:: ride
be carried or travel on or in a vehicle; ride
ride over, along, or through; ride
sit on and control a vehicle; drive, ride
have certain properties when driven; show more antonyms...

Types:: show 53 types...; hide 53 types...; tramp down, trample, tread down
walk on and flatten; lollop
walk clumsily and with a bounce; tap
walk with a tapping sound; bumble, falter, stumble
walk unsteadily; spacewalk
move in space outside a space craft; foot, hoof, hoof it, leg it
walk; toe
walk so that the toes assume an indicated position or direction; shlep, traipse
walk or tramp about; perambulate, walk about, walk around
walk with no particular goal; ambulate
walk about; not be bedridden or incapable of walking; creep, mouse, pussyfoot, sneak
to go stealthily or furtively; wade
walk (through relatively shallow water); cock, prance, ruffle, sashay, strut, swagger, tittup
to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others; sleepwalk, somnambulate
walk in one's sleep; slink
walk stealthily; gimp, hitch, hobble, limp
walk impeded by some physical limitation or injury; scuffle, shamble, shuffle
walk by dragging one's feet; saunter, stroll
walk leisurely and with no apparent aim; amble, mosey
walk leisurely; prowl
move about in or as if in a predatory manner; skulk
move stealthily; coggle, dodder, paddle, toddle, totter, waddle
walk unsteadily; promenade
take a leisurely walk; march
walk fast, with regular or measured steps; walk with a stride; stride
walk with long steps; hike
walk a long way, as for pleasure or physical exercise; footslog, pad, plod, slog, tramp, trudge
walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud; tip, tippytoe, tiptoe
walk on one's toes; stalk
walk stiffly; flounce
walk emphatically; careen, keel, lurch, reel, stagger, swag
walk as if unable to control one's movements; flounder, stagger
walk with great difficulty; stamp, stomp, stump
walk heavily; lumber, pound
move heavily or clumsily; pace
walk with slow or fast paces; trample, tread
tread or stomp heavily or roughly; slouch
walk slovenly; mince
walk daintily; clomp, clump
walk clumsily; march, process
march in a procession; step
walk a short distance to a specified place or in a specified manner; puddle
wade or dabble in a puddle; drag, scuff
walk without lifting the feet; troop
move or march as if in a crowd; file
proceed in line; tramp
travel on foot, especially on a walking expedition; slop, slosh, splash, splosh, squelch, squish
walk through mud or mire; parade, promenade, troop
march in a procession; backpack, pack
hike with a backpack; goose step
march in a military fashion; treadle
tread over; countermarch
march back along the same way; debouch, march out
march out (as from a defile) into open ground

Type of:: go, locomote, move, travel
change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically

v walk at a pace

“The horses walked across the meadow”

Type of:: pace
go at a pace

v take a walk; go for a walk; walk for pleasure

“The lovers held hands while walking”

“We like to walk every Sunday”

Synonyms:: take the air

Types:: constitutionalize
take a walk for one's health or to aid digestion, as after a meal

Type of:: go, locomote, move, travel
change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically

v traverse or cover by walking

“Walk the tightrope”

“Paul walked the streets of Damascus”

“She walks 3 miles every day”

Type of:: cover, cross, cut across, cut through, get across, get over, pass over, track, traverse
travel across or pass over

v accompany or escort

“I'll walk you to your car”

Types:: trot
cause to trot; march
force to march; frogmarch
march a person against his will by any method

Type of:: accompany
go or travel along with

v make walk

“He walks the horse up the mountain”

“Walk the dog twice a day”

Types:: exhibit, march, parade
walk ostentatiously; march
cause to march or go at a marching pace

Type of:: compel, obligate, oblige
force somebody to do something

n the act of traveling by foot

“walking is a healthy form of exercise”

Synonyms:: walking

Types:: show 24 types...; hide 24 types...; ambulation
walking about; noctambulation, noctambulism, sleepwalking, somnambulation, somnambulism
walking by a person who is asleep; gait
a person's manner of walking; march, marching
the act of marching; walking with regular steps (especially in a procession of some kind); plod, plodding
the act of walking with a slow heavy gait; prowl
the act of prowling (walking about in a stealthy manner); shamble, shambling, shuffle, shuffling
walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet; wading
walking with your feet in shallow water; hitch, hobble, limp
the uneven manner of walking that results from an injured leg; flounce
the act of walking with exaggerated jerky motions; lurch, stagger, stumble
an unsteady uneven gait; pacing
walking with slow regular strides; roll
walking with a swaying gait; saunter
a careless leisurely gait; skip
a gait in which steps and hops alternate; angry walk, stalk
a stiff or threatening gait; prance, strut, swagger
a proud stiff pompous gait; waddle
walking with short steps and the weight tilting from one foot to the other; countermarch
(military) a march in the reverse direction or back along the same route; goose step
a manner of marching with legs straight and swinging high; lockstep
a manner of marching in file in which each person's leg moves with and behind the corresponding leg of the person ahead; promenade
a march of all the guests at the opening of a formal dance; quick march
marching at quick time; routemarch
a long training march for troops

Type of:: locomotion, travel
self-propelled movement

n the act of walking somewhere

“he took a walk after lunch”

Types:: show 13 types...; hide 13 types...; amble, perambulation, promenade, saunter, stroll
a leisurely walk (usually in some public place); constitutional
a regular walk taken as a form of exercise; foot
travel by walking; hike, hiking, tramp
a long walk usually for exercise or pleasure; last mile
the last walk of a condemned person to the execution place; moonwalk
an exploratory walk by an astronaut on the surface of the moon; perambulation
a walk around a territory (a parish or manor or forest etc.) in order to officially assert and record its boundaries; turn
taking a short walk out and back; walkabout
nomadic excursions into the bush made by an Aborigine; walk-through
the act of walking in order to view something; meander, ramble
an aimless amble on a winding course; trudge
a long difficult walk; walkabout
a public stroll by a celebrity to meet people informally

Type of:: travel, traveling, travelling
the act of going from one place to another

n a slow gait of a horse in which two feet are always on the ground

Type of:: gait
a horse's manner of moving

n manner of walking

“he had a funny walk”

Synonyms:: manner of walking

Type of:: bearing, carriage, posture
characteristic way of bearing one's body

n a path set aside for walking

“after the blizzard he shoveled the front walk”

Synonyms:: paseo, walkway

Types:: show 9 types...; hide 9 types...; ambulatory
a covered walkway (as in a cloister); boardwalk
a walkway made of wooden boards; usually at seaside; catwalk
narrow pathway high in the air (as above a stage or between parts of a building or along a bridge); flagging
a walk of flagstones; mall, promenade
a public area set aside as a pedestrian walk; pavement, sidewalk
walk consisting of a paved area for pedestrians; usually beside a street or roadway; skywalk
an elevated walkway between buildings (usually enclosed); duckboard
a boardwalk laid across muddy ground; esplanade
a long stretch of open level ground (paved or grassy) for walking beside the seashore

Type of:: path
a way especially designed for a particular use

v obtain a base on balls

Type of:: hit, rack up, score, tally
gain points in a game

v give a base on balls to

Type of:: play
participate in games or sport

n (baseball) an advance to first base by a batter who receives four balls

Synonyms:: base on balls, pass

Type of:: accomplishment, achievement
the action of accomplishing something

v live or behave in a specified manner

“walk in sadness”

Type of:: behave, comport
behave well or properly

v be or act in association with

“We must walk with our dispossessed brothers and sisters”

“Walk with God”

Type of:: associate, consociate
bring or come into association or action

n careers in general

“it happens in all walks of life”

Synonyms:: walk of life

Type of:: calling, career, vocation
the particular occupation for which you are trained

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