Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act or practice of walking; traveling or racing on foot; the art of a pedestrian or professional walker or runner.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act, art, or practice of a pedestrian; walking or running; traveling or racing on foot.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A form of
competitive walking of the nineteenth century, oftenprofessional and funded bywagering , from which the modernsport ofracewalking developed.
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Examples
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Just as pedestrians are accorded priority on thoroughfares because pedestrianism is the natural state of man, so amateur sports stand on a higher plane than professional sport.
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Just as pedestrians are accorded priority on thoroughfares because pedestrianism is the natural state of man, so amateur sports stand on a higher plane than professional sport.
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Just as pedestrians are accorded priority on thoroughfares because pedestrianism is the natural state of man, so amateur sports stand on a higher plane than professional sport.
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[Page 32] grace of architecture; but the taxi-cabs and private motors are almost as abundant as in peace-time, and the peril of pedestrianism is kept at its normal pitch by the incessant dashing to and fro of those unrivalled engines of destruction, the hospital and War Office motors.
Fighting France 1915
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When Flolamp continue to pedestrianism on beach, a Natureism warrior was running to front from the small battle car.
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The result is broken or stretched contracts, sloppy novels hammered out in a rush, or a sort or imaginative pedestrianism born of over analysis.
Yes I'm that crazy old mountain man... zornhau 2009
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"The true charm of pedestrianism does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking," Twain writes.
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"The true charm of pedestrianism does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking," Twain writes.
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"The true charm of pedestrianism does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking," Twain writes.
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If we start equating cycling with pedestrianism instead of vehicle use then before you know it we'll all be "schluffing."
Power Struggle: Sucking, and Sucking it Up BikeSnobNYC 2009
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