traipsed; traipsing
: to go on foot : walk
traipsed over to the restaurant
children traipsing at her heels
also
: to walk or travel about without apparent plan but with or without a purpose
a week traipsing through the Ozarks
traipsing from office to office
traipse
noun
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Examples of traipse in a Sentence
I traipsed all over town looking for the right dress.
I'm too old to go traipsing around Europe.
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After several months of traipsing through dingy slush and teetering precariously across unshoveled Denver sidewalks, my thermal Blundstone Chelsea boots look wrecked.
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Beth Rankin, The Denver Post, 5 Nov. 2024
The first job the orchestra had in giving concerts was to raise your spirits after your having traipsed through a seemingly bureaucratic building in a neighborhood dead at night and on weekends when concerts are given.
—Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2024
His painstaking efforts—which involved toting camera gear and traipsing through forests in snowshoes—were rewarded with this photograph of a resting lynx with its adult offspring standing behind it, sheltering from the wind.
—Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Oct. 2024
After a day of traipsing around the Funk Zone or surfing SB’s breaks, unwind at Majorelle Spa or soak up views from the Tan Tan rooftop pool deck.
—Sunset Magazine, 10 Sep. 2024
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Beth Rankin, The Denver Post, 5 Nov. 2024
The first job the orchestra had in giving concerts was to raise your spirits after your having traipsed through a seemingly bureaucratic building in a neighborhood dead at night and on weekends when concerts are given.
—Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2024
His painstaking efforts—which involved toting camera gear and traipsing through forests in snowshoes—were rewarded with this photograph of a resting lynx with its adult offspring standing behind it, sheltering from the wind.
—Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Oct. 2024
After a day of traipsing around the Funk Zone or surfing SB’s breaks, unwind at Majorelle Spa or soak up views from the Tan Tan rooftop pool deck.
—Sunset Magazine, 10 Sep. 2024
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“Traipse.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/traipse. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
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