"tramping" in the verb sense

1. tramp

travel on foot, especially on a walking expedition

"We went tramping about the state of Colorado"

2. slog, footslog, plod, trudge, pad, tramp

walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud

"Mules plodded in a circle around a grindstone"

3. tramp

cross on foot

"We had to tramp the creeks"

4. roll, wander, swan, stray, tramp, roam, cast, ramble, rove, range, drift, vagabond

move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment

"The gypsies roamed the woods"

"roving vagabonds"

"the wandering Jew"

"The cattle roam across the prairie"

"the laborers drift from one town to the next"

"They rolled from town to town"

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