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Verb: walk  wok
  1. 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"
     
  2. Accompany or escort
    "I'll walk you to your car"
     
  3. Traverse or cover by walking
    "Walk the tightrope"; "Paul walked the streets of Damascus"; "She walks 3 miles every day"
     
  4. Live or behave in a specified manner
    "walk in sadness"
     
  5. Be or act in association with
    "We must walk with our dispossessed brothers and sisters"; "Walk with God"
     
  6. Walk at a pace
    "The horses walked across the meadow"
     
  7. Make (someone or something) advance on foot; take on a walk (esp. for exercise)
    "He walks the horse up the mountain"; "Walk the dog twice a day"
     
  8. Take a walk; go for a walk; walk for pleasure
    "The lovers held hands while walking"; "We like to walk every Sunday";
    - take the air
     
  9. (baseball) obtain a base on balls
     
  10. (baseball) give a base on balls to
Noun: walk  wok
  1. The act of travelling by foot
    - walking
     
  2. Manner of walking
    "he had a funny walk"
     
  3. The act of walking somewhere
    "he took a walk after lunch"
     
  4. A path set aside for walking
    "after the blizzard he shoveled the front walk";
    - walkway, paseo
     
  5. A slow gait of a horse in which two feet are always on the ground
     
  6. Careers in general
    "it happens in all walks of life";
    - walk of life
     
  7. (baseball) an advance to first base by a batter who receives four balls
    "he worked the pitcher for a walk";
    - base on balls, pass

Derived forms: walks, walked, walking

See also: walk around

Type of: accompany, accomplishment, achievement, associate, bearing, behave, calling, career, carriage, compel, comport, consociate, cover, cross, cut across, cut through, gait, get across, get over, go, locomote, locomotion, move, obligate, oblige, pace, pass over, path, play, posture, rack up, score, tally, track, travel, traveling [US], travelling [Brit, Cdn], traverse, vocation

Antonym: ride

Encyclopedia: Walk, Idiot, Walk