backpack — Dizionario inglese

Sostantivo

1. A knapsack, sometimes mounted on a light frame, but always supported by straps, worn on a person’s back for the purpose of carrying things, especially when hiking, or on a student's back when carrying books.

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   Rachel discovered that she could also keep things in her backpack that were important to her, nobody would know about them because they would be hidden. These important things included a small round rock that she had found […]

   Many seats carry reservation labels, while the luggage racks are festooned with backpacks and suitcases.

2. A similarly placed item containing a parachute or other life support equipment.

Verbo

1. To hike and camp overnight in backcountry with one's gear carried in a backpack.

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   • intransitivo

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   I spent a month backpacking in the Rockies.

2. To engage in low-cost, generally urban, travel with minimal luggage and frugal accommodation.

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   • intransitivo

3. To place or carry (an item or items) in a backpack.

   Uso

   • raro
   • transitivo

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   Astronauts backpack oxygen during spacewalks.

   I planned to go to jungle today and backpacked my things which contained^([sic]) food and a note book.

Sostantivo

1. a bag carried by a strap on your back or shoulder

   Sinonimi

   back packknapsackpacksackrucksackhaversack

   Termini più generali

   bag

Verbo

1. hike with a backpack

   Sinonimi

   pack

   Termini più generali

   hike

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   Every summer they are backpacking in the Rockies