Hiking is what they call it in North America, but in Britain they call it walking.
I'm British and yes we do call it walking - however some people call it climbing.
That's interesting! Sometimes it used to be called rambling, hillwalking, or fell walking.
A popular type of holiday related to this is called a "Walking Holiday", where Brits will go to a destination such as Tyrol purely with the idea of walking to explore their chosen location.
Oh that's pretty cool. We should do that here. In Australia they call it bushwalking and have a Sydney Bush Walkers Club.
That's awesome! I would like to go on a walk there.. but I'd definitely need a tour guide as I'm deathly afraid of spiders and snakes.
the UK, along with rambling (a slightly old-fashioned term), hillwalking, and fell walking (a term mostly used for hillwalking in northern England). The term bushwalking is endemic to Australia, having been adopted by the Sydney Bush Walkers club in 1927. In New Zealand a long, vigorous walk or hike is called tramping. It is a popular activity with numerous worldwide, and studies suggest that all forms of walking have health benefits.
Related terms.
In the United States, Canada, the
Republic of Ireland, and United Kingdom, hiking means walking outdoors on a trail, or off trail, for recreational purposes. A day hike refers to a hike that can be completed in a single day. However, in the United Kingdom, the word walking is also used, as well as rambling, while walking in mountainous areas is called hillwalking. In Northern England, Including the Lake District and Yorkshire Dales, fellwalking describes hill or mountain walks, as fell is the common word for both features there.
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