emphasis You can use walking in expressions like a walking disaster or a walking dictionary in order to emphasize, for example, that someone causes a lot of disasters, or knows a lot of difficult words. He was a walking encyclopaedia. In track and field, a form of racing in which the competitor's advancing foot must touch the ground before the rear foot leaves it. Walking as a sport dates from the later 19th century. Walking races of 10 mi and 3,500 m were added to the men's Olympic program in 1908, but since 1956 the Olympic distances have been 20 km and 50 km. A women's 10-km walk was introduced in 1992. fire walking walking leaf Tennessee Walking Horse Plantation Walking Horse walking catfish
Walking is the activity of taking walks for exercise or pleasure, especially in the country. Recently I've started to do a lot of walking and cycling. a walking holiday
In caving, a passage in which there is enough head room to walk upright cf Flattener, Crawlway, Stooping Cave - Parts of Ref MM
The sequential cloning of adjacent regions along a chromosome by using the ends of previously-obtained clones to re-screen genomic libraries Walking allows one to extend the length of contigs (see Chapter 10)