walking

1. 1.

   close enough to be walked to

   “walking distance”

   “the factory with the big parking lot...is more convenient than the walk-to factory”

   Synonymswalk-to

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Other forms of walking

plural

walkings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about walking

What does walking mean?

walking means "the act of traveling by foot". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in walking?

walking has 2 syllables: wal-king. The stress falls on "wal". In IPA it is /ˈwɔkɪŋ/.

What is another word for walking?

Close synonyms include walk, walk-to. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is walking a common word?

walking is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with walking?

1 word rhymes with walking. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.