tramping

Deliberate, cynical parasitism, such as one reads of in Jack London’s books on American tramping, is not in the English character.

Down and Out in Paris and London 1933

She grudged every farthing spent on anything, and much disliked the notion of tramping to Penzance to expend the greater part of a five-pound note on Tom's sea outfit.

Lying Prophets Eden Phillpotts 1911

I didn't like the idea of tramping around through grass and reeds where poisonous snakes might be found.

In Africa Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country John T. McCutcheon 1909

"I think I would rather not," pleaded Max, who looked with horror upon the idea of tramping the mountain side clothed as he was.

Three Boys or the Chiefs of the Clan Mackhai George Manville Fenn 1870

"Not to-night; he will not like the idea of tramping through the woods in the dark."

Desk and Debit or, The Catastrophes of a Clerk Oliver Optic 1859

"I learned some time ago that things were not altogether right over yonder, but I hadn't the ghost of an idea that my entire estate was involved; that while I'd been 'tramping' -- I'll use Judge Gatchell's word -- the men in whose hands I placed too much power had taken advantage of it.

A Woman Named Smith Marie Conway Oemler 1905

The voice said that he was spending his time in the next world "tramping".

In search of the real Philip Larkin 2010

Burma, down-and-out years of "tramping," emergence as a writer in the

Orwell still revered figure: Book proves love of author thrives 2003

National Congress was "tramping" over minority parties by pushing for a constitution of its own making.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

When I told her that it was through my own choice that I was "tramping," that I enjoyed it she looked at me with genuine pity, and as though she had just discovered that I did not have good common sense.

Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888 Frances Marie Antoinette Mack Roe