Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act or practice of walking; traveling or racing on foot; the art of a pedestrian or professional walker or runner.
Wiktionary
- n. A form of competitive walking of the nineteenth century, often professional and funded by wagering, from which the modern sport of racewalking developed.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act, art, or practice of a pedestrian; walking or running; traveling or racing on foot.
Examples
“Just as pedestrians are accorded priority on thoroughfares because pedestrianism is the natural state of man, so amateur sports stand on a higher plane than professional sport.”
“[Page 32] grace of architecture; but the taxi-cabs and private motors are almost as abundant as in peace-time, and the peril of pedestrianism is kept at its normal pitch by the incessant dashing to and fro of those unrivalled engines of destruction, the hospital and War Office motors.”
“When Flolamp continue to pedestrianism on beach, a Natureism warrior was running to front from the small battle car.”
“The result is broken or stretched contracts, sloppy novels hammered out in a rush, or a sort or imaginative pedestrianism born of over analysis.”
“The true charm of pedestrianism does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking," Twain writes.”
“If we start equating cycling with pedestrianism instead of vehicle use then before you know it we'll all be "schluffing.”
“In a city that equates pedestrianism with deviancy, I was also astonished to find a nicely designed pedestrian entryway off Sepulveda Boulevard — a plaza with a 9/11 memorial along with two 100-foot-high translucent glass towers.”
“In "The Lost Art of Walking," a slight but amusing treatise on pedestrianism, the novelist Geoff Nicholson describes walking in New York as "a risky activity, a form of combat, a struggle for dominance, sometimes a contact sport.”
“But Mr. Nicholson's own pedestrianism finds roots in Baudelaire, who coined the term flâneur to describe a city walker who savors the spectacle of modern life as an ever-changing work of art.”
“If any single idea is central to Mr. Nicholson's ramble through the lore of pedestrianism, it's this idea of walking as a method of discovery -- both of the world and one's own thoughts about it.”
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