walker

The agent noun of to walk: a person who walks or a thing which walks, especially a pedestrian or a participant in a walking race.

Noun

  1. The agent noun of to walk: a person who walks or a thing which walks, especially a pedestrian or a participant in a walking race.
    • The park was full of morning walkers enjoying the fresh air.
    • He decided to become a long-distance walker for charity events.
    • I would ask for the pleasure of your company, Mr. Knightley, but I am a very slow walker, and my pace would be tedious to you; and, besides, you have another long walk before you, to Donwell Abbey. - 1815 December...
  2. One who walks (takes for a walk).
    • Accompanying her was Prinny, who was made very happy by this intimation that he was to be taken for a walk, an undertaking for which the servants generally drew lots, the dog’s mass being so considerable and energetic...
    • Consequently, he had developed a new variation on an old habit. That of grabbing the leash between his teeth and pulling as hard as he could, making it look as if he were the walker, and the walker the walkee. - 2009,...
    • I remember that walking a dog is a good way to get both the walker and the walkee in shape. - 2013, Teresa Lynn Paris McDonnell, The Diet God, [Morrisville, N.C.]: [Lulu.com], →ISBN, page 96:

    Coordinate Terms: walkee

  3. A walking frame or baby walker.
    • The elderly woman used a walker to help her move around more easily.

    Synonyms: rollator Zimmer frame

    Hyponyms: walking frame baby walker Zimmer frame

  4. A shoe designed for comfortable walking.
  5. A zombie.
    • Dead people, walkers, as you call them, are somehow, and for some reason, attacking. - 1980, Gary Brandner, chapter 17, in Walkers (fiction; paperback), Fawcett Publications, →ISBN:
  6. A male escort who accompanies a woman to an event.
    • He's really just a 'walker' for old ladies!" Walkers, now, are a special breed of pilot fish — entertaining male escorts. - 1980 December 29, New York, volume 14, number 1, page 26:
    • Women at the top — Lady Di and Nancy Reagan in particular — apparently have 'walkers' — men to escort them on public and private occasions providing a respectable cover, while the male who is their sexual partner is off...
    • In the vernacular of the trade, he was what is commonly known as "a walker" — an entertaining male escort who is usually sexually unthreatening […] - [1984, Clemens David Heymann, Poor little rich girl: the life and...
  7. A gressorial bird.
  8. A forester.
  9. A kind of military robot or mecha with legs for locomotion.
    • Two of the walkers circled the pillars. Their searchlights played through the trees, then turned back to Leia and the others. - 2011, Dave Wolverton, The Courtship of Princess Leia: Star Wars Legends, page 144:
    • It also takes a good amount of inspiration from Metal Gear Solid 4s biomechanical designs, namely the Gekko walkers' and their synthetic musculature. - 2019, Joe Meno, BrickJournal #60, page 37:
  10. A batsman or batswoman who directly walks off the field when out without waiting for the umpire's decision.
  11. A prostitute, streetwalker.
    • A single mother of three, Rachel is what Facebook users call as ^([sic]) “walker,” or an online sex worker. Using a dummy account, she posts her sexy photos and informs page visitors that she’s available for sex in...

Origin

From Middle English walkere (“one who walks, traveller”), equivalent to walk + -er.

Forms

walkers

Derived

baby walker bear walker CAM walker dogwalker fieldwalker fire walker floor-walker highwire walker high-wire walker jaywalker jay-walker line walker mall walker planeswalker race walker random walker shop-walker skinwalker slackrope walker stiltwalker tightrope walker wing walker

Noun alt of, alternative

  1. Alternative form of waulker.

Forms

walkers

Derived

walker's earth