1. Walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud
   "Mules tramped in a circle around a grindstone";
   - slog, footslog, plod, trudge, pad, tromp [N. Amer, informal], trog [Brit, informal]
    
2. (sport) travel on foot, especially on a walking expedition
   "We went tramping about the state of Colorado"
    
3. Move about aimlessly or without any fixed destination
   "They tramped from town to town";
   - roll, wander, swan [informal], stray, roam, cast, ramble, rove, range, drift, vagabond [archaic]
    
4. Cross on foot
   "We had to tramp the creeks"

1. A homeless person or vagrant
   "a homeless tramp";
   - hobo [N. Amer, informal], bum [N. Amer, informal], bindlestiff [US], skell [US, informal]
    
2. A long walk usually for exercise or pleasure
   "she enjoys a tramp in her spare time";
   - hike, ramble, trek
    
3. A heavy footfall
   "the tramp of military boots"
    
4. A person who engages freely in promiscuous sex
   "The party gained a reputation as a gathering place for tramps";
   - swinger
    
5. A commercial steamer for hire; one having no regular schedule
   "The old tramp steamer carried cargo to various ports around the world";
   - tramp steamer
    
6. A foot traveller; someone who goes on an extended walk (for pleasure)
   "The experienced tramp trekked through the wilderness for days";
   - hiker, tramper

Derived forms: tramps, tramped, tramping

Type of: clochard, cover, cross, cut across, cut through, debauchee [archaic], drifter, floater, footer, footfall, footstep, get across, get over, go, hike, libertine, locomote, move, pass over, pedestrian, rounder, steamer, steamship, step, track, travel, traverse, vag [Austral, informal], vagabond, vagrant, walk, walker

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