TRAMPING Synonyms: 80 Similar and Opposite Words

tramping

verb

present participle of tramp

as in shuffling

to move heavily or clumsily tramped wearily up the stairs after a long day at work

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as in stomping

to tread on heavily so as to crush or injure didn't mean to tramp your toes as I was running past you

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as in strolling

to travel by foot for exercise or pleasure we would have happily tramped through the forest for the rest of the day if it hadn't started to rain

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Recent Examples of tramping Plant-eating dinos that looked like huge, armored lizards left those footprints while tramping near the coastline of a vast Western Interior Seaway that extended into Colorado. — Kristen Kidd, Denver Post, 22 Sep. 2026 Imagine The Goonies with a half dozen adults tramping through the caves. — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026

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The Current traded away some assets while shuffling stars like Michelle Cooper, Temwa Chawinga and Lorena in and out of the lineup.

— PJ Green, Kansas City Star, 24 Oct. 2026
And for a quarterback whose superpower involves shuffling through collapsing pockets, scrambling through squalor, throwing off any and every platform — such a question was warranted.

— Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of shuffling

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But wrap a play in too much homespun folksiness and the thing starts to feel both suffocating and, despite all the driving tunes and stomping choreography in the world, suffocated.

— Sara Holdren, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2026
The answer isn’t between stomping the gas pedal or leaving the car parked.

— Bob Ackerman, Forbes.com, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of stomping

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Sail the coast, explore the jewel-like beaches, spend days strolling the Old Town and nights sipping sunset cocktails by the water.

— Vogue, Vogue, 27 Oct. 2026
Nearby, other park visitors were strolling along the seawall and looking out over the Potomac River to view pink clouds reflected in the river.

— Sophia Solano, Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2026

Definition of strolling

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When Louise would remember the show decades later, the audience was always so electric that the room exploded into stamping feet and pounding fists.

— Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 18 Oct. 2026
All this suggests that stopping illicit distillation will mean finding new attacks before stamping them out.

— Peter Hall, Scientific American, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of stamping

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In one case, three Boy Scouts attending summer camp reported seeing a silent, silver object moving faster than a conventional jet while hiking on the island June 25, 1952.

— Greg Wehner, FOXNews.com, 25 Oct. 2026
After a brief intermission, Toliver and Todd emerged onstage to riotous applause, hiking up the decibel levels in the room.

— Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2026

Definition of hiking

Verb

Bird-watching, walking, and cycling are other ways to experience the area's natural surroundings.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Oct. 2026
Longtime residents Andy Booth and Yvonne Booth recalled walking the nearby creek themselves hoping to find the boy, who lived a block away.

— Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 Oct. 2026

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