Swedish word fot feet. Translated it means "horses of the apostles" referring to the apostles traveling on foot.

Walking the bounds of the parish on Rogation Day

To amble without real aim, yet in a friendly and harmless manner. It's not required to acheive nothing, though it is a frequent side effect. Bimbling can be made a little more business like with a slight hunch of the shoulders. Tron and Enid whiled away many a Sunday afternoon on a pleasant bimble round the shops. Urban Dictionary

We also wear crampons on boots, spiky metal cleats that affix via stretchy rubber-type bands. I don’t think there’s a noun for cramponing, but a friend did post on FB last week that so many Montrealers were wearing crampons that in on the tiled floors of the subway stations we sounded like a giant troupe of tap dancers. Oh would it were so! This idea lifts my heart. But maybe we won’t move from walking to dancing….

dɒmæmbjʊleɪt/ v. [L domus of home, ambulare to walk, move about.] 1 Wander or pace about one's residence during daylight hours and/or at night. Can be indicative of excessive mental activity.

(French) Meaning both to wander and to err

The first person across the threshold on New Years eve (bringing good luck and carrying objects such as coal, a coin, salt, drink and song). Quaaltagh or qualtagh in Manx Gaelic.

Somewhere between a hop and a skip, indoor walking makes use of a confined space to take a long walk; can be adapted to any size of enclosure; involves a lot of cornering, back-pedalling and whole-body improvising; can easily drift into dancing, marching, rolling about on the floor and even standing still. Equally enjoyable in company or alone. Largely unrecorded, even secretive.

A walk undertaken to emplace, re-image and transform (in the smallest of ways) a life-event. Relates to pilgrimage undertaken for a rites-of-passage.

a walk with someone, me and ...or alone

what a wayfarer brings back and lays out on a table to tell of where she has been meow IN PRAISE OF WALKING 40 'definitions' by THOMAS A. CLARK 1988

"Midway on our life’s journey, I found myself In dark woods, the right road lost.” (Dante)

A two-step ballroom dance from the 1930's, adapted for making progress during the cycle of a blue moon. Suitable for round-the-year gliding. Always useful in a tight corner.

an unhurried (urban) walk, and “mosey over to...” to walk over and investigate something, to go and have a look, to have a gander - a mosey and a shufty alt: One of my personal favourites is ‘mosey’, which betrays my childhood watching old western movies on television. Folks would mosey on down to the saloon, or whatever. Origin unknown. I use ‘mosey’ with my dog, to suggest a shared outing whose goal is exploratory pleasure (both of us), rather than a quick pee (him). It’s a word we share and that he recognizes means some joint fun: with all my own work about walking and various associated discussions, I wanted a term that would be special for him — and not have him perking to attention at every mention of “w-a-l-k”!

(Welsh/Cymraeg) meaning to 'take a turn' i.e. go for a walk. Which leads me to to take a turn, as it appears in Jane Austen etc i.e. let us take a turn round the garden. Not quite the same meaning as the Welsh.

Walking slowly.

Walking with the intention to foster unity amongst peoples (often done in organized groups) and/or as a meditative practice (usually done solo.)

to work or walk hurriedly. from the Dictionary of Newfoundland English (University of Toronto Press, 1982). Many of these terms are from the 17th-century and were brought to Newfoundland with the settlers from England (the majority were from Wessex, mainly the counties of Dorset and Devon), and from Ireland (the majority were from a 30-mile radius of the city of Waterford). These terms survived here in Newfoundland after falling out of use in their original countries.

In terms of negotiating ice underfoot, here in Quebec the Anglos don’t have the same lovely language as the Newfounders. We certainly shuffle. Another s word! We take small sliding steps, weight forward, no heel planting but full foot down. We think of it as a penguin walk (somthing you can visualize) — and are often attired in puffy warm dark clothing reminiscent of said sweet creatures.

To 'slape' off…slippery, also from Icelandic – to become fee, to escape, to get off. It is thought possible that the Yorkshire dialect forms had the early meaning ‘to slip away’. Also in Yorkshire – slape ale is a free ale or a beer bought for you by someone else.

Walking while asleep.

(West Cornwall, slang) A walk of any notable distance. It's quite a way - "That's some (or brerm) stank". Fancy a hike? "Fancy a stank? "Where is he? "Oh, out stanking (walking)".

A project where performance and urban society are investigated from within a Japanese practice called suriashi (which translates as ‘creeping/rubbing/sliding foot’).

A walk undertaken on behalf of someone who can no longer walk.

(Turkish) It connects taban (meaning sole in English) and the English word way, thus meaning sole-way.

"making love with the soles of your feet”’ - John Cowper Powys, from his novel Porius, page 465, where in his imagined language of the aboriginal Cewri of Cader Idris, “Gongquod” means “the earth”, and “thumberol” means “to tread amorously”.

from Yorkshire

from Yorkshire

Mix of trudge & slog. In Lancashire we “trog up t’hill”.

one who sets out to see where the way takes her IN PRAISE OF WALKING 40 'definitions' by THOMAS A. CLARK 1988

to wobble about (precariously) – I did some of that on the ice today

WIDOW’S WALK (also WIDOW’S WATCH and ROOFWALK) A railed platform on the roof of a house. The term is sometimes said to derive from the habit of women using them as vantage points for looking out to sea for their lost mariner husbands.

over there / elsewhere – my lovely dad used to say I’d gone off yonder… (gone for a walk) – but also used it metaphorically too