walker
Meanings
Plural: walkers
Noun
- New Zealand runner who in 1975 became the first person to run a mile in less that 3 minutes and 50 seconds (born in 1952)
- United States writer (born in 1944)
- a person who travels by foot
- a shoe designed for comfortable walking
- a light enclosing framework (trade name Zimmer) with rubber castors or wheels and handles; helps invalids or the handicapped or the aged to walk
- an enclosing framework on casters or wheels; helps babies learn to walk
- The agent noun of to walk: a person who walks or a thing which walks, especially a pedestrian or a participant in a walking race.
- One who walks (takes for a walk).
- A walking frame or baby walker.
- A shoe designed for comfortable walking.
- A zombie.
- A male escort who accompanies a woman to an event.
- A gressorial bird.
- A forester.
- A kind of military robot or mecha with legs for locomotion.
- A batsman or batswoman who directly walks off the field when out without waiting for the umpire's decision.
- A prostitute, streetwalker.
- Alternative form of waulker.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English walkere (“one who walks, traveller”), equivalent to walk + -er.
Synonyms
Alice Malsenior Walker, Alice Walker, baby-walker, footer, go-cart, John Walker, pedestrian, rollator, walking frame, Zimmer, zimmer frame, Zimmer frame
Scrabble Score: 13
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