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backpacking

NOUN
mountaineering
Synonyms
STRONGEST
STRONG
WEAK
hill-climbing rock-climbing


NOUN
hiking
Synonyms


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In a season when rock climbing, backpacking and shooting the rapids are popular, maybe our reading would benefit from going big.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 25, 2026

Several are backpacking sites and do not offer potable water.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 29, 2025

Loktev hasn’t completed a film since 2011’s “The Loneliest Planet,” which starred Gael García Bernal and Hani Furstenberg as soon-to-be-wed lovers backpacking through the Georgian countryside, their seemingly close bond shattered after a harrowing encounter.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 25, 2025

Its parking situation was inconvenient, bordering on inaccessible, and the journey from curb to gate and vice versa was the airport version of backpacking the Appalachian Trail.

From Slate Nov. 24, 2025

It’s hard to do that when you’re backpacking in Nepal.

From "Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel" by Harlan Coben




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