Backpack

Quick meaning: Backpack is a noun meaning A similarly placed item containing a parachute or other life-support equipment.

Meaning

A similarly placed item containing a parachute or other life-support equipment.

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

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.

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

Word Forms

• backpacks
• back pack
• backpacking
• backpacked

Synonyms for backpack

Depending on context, synonyms include haversack, knapsack, packsack, rucksack, bookbag, pack.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include knapsack, pack, haversack, rucksack, satchel, valise.

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