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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The act or an instance of walking or performing another activity associated with wakefulness while asleep or in a sleeplike state.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Somnambulism.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Walking in one's sleep.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The act of walking while not conscious or aware of it.
  • verb Present participle of sleepwalk.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun walking by a person who is asleep

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Examples

  • The word sleepwalking does well to be an oxymoron, a combining of two incompatibles, for to walk while you sleep is to go against nature.

    BREAKFAST WITH SOCRATES ROBERT ROWLAND SMITH 2010

  • The word sleepwalking does well to be an oxymoron, a combining of two incompatibles, for to walk while you sleep is to go against nature.

    BREAKFAST WITH SOCRATES ROBERT ROWLAND SMITH 2010

  • A study by Travelodge found a seven-fold increase in sleepwalking customers in the past year, to more than 400 cases — almost all of them men.

    Hotels Train Staff For Naked Sleepwalkers | Impact Lab 2007

  • The Jews of Budapest have been described as sleepwalking towards a terrible fate.

    I'm not angry with Edith any more 2011

  • Patients who are not just sleepwalking, which is what that statement talks about, or sleep - eating.

    CNN Transcript Mar 16, 2006 2006

  • What other kinds of things do you see in patients who are not just sleepwalking, which is what that statement talks about, but sleep-eating?

    CNN Transcript Mar 16, 2006 2006

  • For while my reason told me that I had been the intruder, my intuition continued to insist that my sleepwalking was a result, not a cause.

    The Confession Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917

  • Some psychologists call sleepwalking an extreme form of absent-mindedness.

    Modern Mechanix 2009

  • The Federal Health Department has received 16 separate reports of odd "sleepwalking" behaviour caused by the drug Stilnox, The Sydney Morning Herald reports.

    Boing Boing 2007

  • Obama were 4k v. 12k; what kind of sleepwalking is required to get 400% increase instead of 200% increase?

    Reduce Government Beaurocracy! Steven Barnes 2009

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  • Artie claims he does this when he eats late.

    October 24, 2012