Meaning

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..

Definitions by Sense

1. 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.
2. A similarly placed item containing a parachute or other life-support equipment.
3. (intransitive) To hike and camp overnight in backcountry with one's gear carried in a backpack.
4. (intransitive) To engage in low-cost, generally urban, travel with minimal luggage and frugal accommodation.
5. (transitive, rare) To place or carry (an item or items) in a backpack.

Example Sentences

Rachel discovered that she could also keep things in her backpack that were important to her, nobody would know about them because they would be hidden. These important things included a small round rock that she had found […]

Many seats carry reservation labels, while the luggage racks are festooned with backpacks and suitcases.

I spent a month backpacking in the Rockies.

Astronauts backpack oxygen during spacewalks.

I planned to go to jungle today and backpacked my things which contained ^([sic]) food and a note book.

Word Forms

• backpacks
• back pack
• backpacking
• backpacked

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When Should You Use Backpack?

Use backpack when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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