noun, verb ·2 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   Any activity by an astronaut outside of a spacecraft or space station in space.

Verb

1. 1
   To perform a spacewalk.
2. 2
   move in space outside a space craft wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

evaextravehicular activity

Example

More examples

"Russian cosmonaut Alexei Leonov performed the first spacewalk on March 18, 1965."

Etymology

From space + walk.

Related phrases

extravehicular activityspace station

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