tramp

Noun

• a long walk usually for exercise or pleasure
  • she enjoys a hike in her spare time
    

• a commercial steamer for hire; one having no regular schedule

• a heavy footfall
  • the tramp of military boots
    

• a foot traveler; someone who goes on an extended walk (for pleasure)

• a person who engages freely in promiscuous sex

• a disreputable vagrant
  • a homeless tramp
    
  • he tried to help the really down-and-out bums
    

Verb

• move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
  • The gypsies roamed the woods
    
  • roving vagabonds
    
  • the wandering Jew
    
  • The cattle roam across the prairie
    
  • the laborers drift from one town to the next
    
  • They rolled from town to town
    

• cross on foot
  • We had to tramp the creeks
    

• walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud
  • Mules plodded in a circle around a grindstone
    

• travel on foot, especially on a walking expedition
  • We went tramping about the state of Colorado
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  hike , hiking , tramp steamer , hiker , tramper , swinger , hobo , bum , slog , footslog , plod , trudge , pad