ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Bushwalker

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Bushwalker is a noun meaning (Australia, New Zealand) A hiker or backpacker.

Meaning

(Australia, New Zealand) A hiker or backpacker.

Example Sentences

There are numerous stories of bushwalkers spending several hours up a tree waiting for a wild pig to go away.
In the following years the Kanangra country became the object of a mild form of cult worship as bushwalkers discovered its many delights[…].
The anthropologist Lisa Palmer has written about an analogous but different situation in her study of non-indigenous bushwalkers in Kakadu. She writes very eloquently about the conflicts that have emerged in Kakadu where the Bininj/Mungguy have attempted to limit bushwalker access to the stone country in particular.

Word Forms

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include bushwhacker, bushie, bushman, bushranger, bushy, bushwoman.

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