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- Dictionarytraipse/treɪps/
verb
- 1. walk or move wearily or reluctantly: "students had to traipse all over London to attend lectures"
noun
- 1. a tedious or tiring journey on foot.
- 2. a slovenly woman. archaic
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TRAIPSE definition: 1. to walk from one place to another, often feeling tired or bored: 2. to walk from one place to…. Learn more.
The meaning of TRAIPSE is to go on foot : walk; also : to walk or travel about without apparent plan but with or without a purpose. How to use traipse in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Traipse.
to walk from one place to another, often feeling tired or bored: I spent the day traipsing around the mall, but found nothing suitable for her. More than 6 million people traipse through the national park each year. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Moving a long way on foot. backpacker. backpacking. bushwalking. footslogging. hiker.
To traipse is to walk around with a sloppy or aimless attitude. A bored high school student might traipse through a museum on a class trip, for example. When you traipse, you trudge in an exhausted or reluctant way.
If you traipse somewhere, you go there unwillingly, often because you are tired or unhappy.
1. to walk or go aimlessly or idly or without finding or reaching one's goal. v.t. 2. to walk over; tramp: to traipse the fields. n. 3. a tiring walk. [1585–95; earlier trapse, unexplained alter. of trape, akin to tramp] Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc.
Definition of traipse verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
