backpack

Meanings

Plural: backpacks

Noun

• a bag carried by a strap on your back or shoulder
• A knapsack, sometimes mounted on a light frame, but always supported by straps, worn on a person’s back for the purpose of carrying things, especially when hiking, or on a student's back when carrying books.
• A similarly placed item containing a parachute or other life-support equipment.

Verb

• hike with a backpack
  • "Every summer they are backpacking in the Rockies"
• To hike and camp overnight in backcountry with one's gear carried in a backpack.
• To engage in low-cost, generally urban, travel with minimal luggage and frugal accommodation.
• To place or carry (an item or items) in a backpack.

Synonyms

back pack, bookbag, haversack, knapsack, pack, packsack, rucksack