Meaning

(intransitive) To move on the feet by alternately setting each foot (or pair or group of feet, in the case of animals with four or more feet) forward, with at least one foot on the ground at all times. Compare run..

Definitions by Sense

1. (intransitive) To move on the feet by alternately setting each foot (or pair or group of feet, in the case of animals with four or more feet) forward, with at least one foot on the ground at all times. Compare run.
2. (intransitive, colloquial, law) To "walk free", i.e. to win, or avoid, a criminal court case, particularly when actually guilty.
3. (intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) Of an object, to go missing or be stolen.
4. (intransitive, cricket, of a batsman) To walk off the field, as if given out, after the fielding side appeals and before the umpire has ruled; done as a matter of sportsmanship when the batsman believes he is out.
5. (transitive) To travel (a distance) by walking.
6. (transitive) To take for a walk or accompany on a walk.
7. (transitive, baseball) To allow a batter to reach base by pitching four balls.
8. (intransitive, baseball, of a batter) To reach base by being pitched four balls.

Example Sentences

To walk briskly for an hour every day is to keep fit.

Athelstan Arundel walked home all the way, foaming and raging. […] His mother lived at Pembridge Square, which is four good measured miles from Lincoln's Inn. He walked the whole way, walking through crowds, and under the noses of dray-horses, carriage-horses, and cart-horses, without taking the least notice of them.

Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round. But his Roman collar galled him, his cossack stifled him, his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew's cap and bells.

If you can’t present a better case, that robber is going to walk.

If you leave your wallet lying around, it’s going to walk.

I walk two miles to school every day.

The museum’s not far from here – you can walk it.

I walk the dog every morning.

Word Forms

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When Should You Use Walk?

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

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