Definitions

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  • noun the practice of staying in youth hostels when on holiday, or travelling

Etymologies

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hostel +‎ -ing

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Examples

  • Equipped with its own bar serving "cider and sandwiches, muffins and cookies", this is hostelling for guests who like everything just so.

    10 of the best hostels in London 2011

  • Years ago, Alan Partridge satirised TV content with his call for Monkey Tennis and Youth hostelling with Chris Eubank to be commisioned - now we have Dog Borstal and Help Me Anthea, I'm infested and the BBC insiders can't see the problem.

    Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister? 2010

  • Last summer, we spent a month piggy backing, hitch hiking, and hostelling it across the great Canadian Maritimes.

    Archive 2005-08-01 daveberta 2005

  • Last summer, we spent a month piggy backing, hitch hiking, and hostelling it across the great Canadian Maritimes.

    we love saturdays daveberta 2005

  • It also plans to grade backpacker and hostelling establishments, tour operators, and tourist transport service providers.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2003

  • It also plans to set up grading systems for backpacker and hostelling establishments, restaurants, tour operators, and tourist transport service providers.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2003

  • The sub-sectors that will be graded are backpackers and hostelling, caravan parks and camping, conference venues, food and beverage facilities, tourist transport service providers, tour operators, tourism retailers, attractions and travel agents.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2002

  • Many furtive sketches of his teachers survive in his old exercise books, and his diaries are spangled with vivacious cartoons; one favourite shows a drunken German, done when he went on a cycling tour, youth hostelling round Germany and Austria in the summer of 1936.

    The Guardian World News 2011

  • Many furtive sketches of his teachers survive in his old exercise books, and his diaries are spangled with vivacious cartoons; one favourite shows a drunken German, done when he went on a cycling tour, youth hostelling round Germany and Austria in the summer of 1936.

    The Guardian World News 2011

  • HI-USA -- "To help all gain a greater understanding of the world through hostelling."

    WN.com - Articles related to Gay travel to Lima, Peru: Easier than ever with LAN Airlines new service from SFO 2010

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