Walkalong
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A type of interview in which the interviewer and subject walk together while talking.
"The method of walkalongs, first described by Margarethe Kusenbach (2003), combines interview and observation."
- 2 A police detail or other group that walks with someone.
"In the period before, when Martin Luther King was here walking through the different neighborhoods, I was in the walkalongs, the police protection, on the north side and on the south side."
- 3 A small forklift used for pallets.
"All fork lift trucks, platform trucks, walkalongs, cranes, and four-wheeled trucks should be checked for capacities."
- 4 A dandy-horse, a 19th-century precursor of the bicycle.
"They were called walkalongs, dandy horses, hobby-horses, or Draisines."
Example
More examples"The method of walkalongs, first described by Margarethe Kusenbach (2003), combines interview and observation."
Etymology
From walk + along.
Related phrases
More for "walkalong"
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.