Meaning

3 senses
  1. (intransitive)To hike and camp overnight in backcountry with one's gear carried in a backpack.

    I spent a month backpacking in the Rockies.

    hike with a backpack

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

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

    Astronauts backpack oxygen during spacewalks.

Examples

299 sentences
  1. Put your stuff in your backpack.

    Покладіть свої речі до рюкзаку.

    ruПоложите Ваши вещи в рюкзак.

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  2. Does this backpack belong to you?

    Це твій рюкзак?

    deGehört dieser Rucksack dir?

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  3. Tom's backpack is over there.

    Рюкзак Тома он там.

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  4. Tom started packing his backpack.

    Том почав збирати рюкзак.

    deTom fing an, seinen Rucksack zu packen.

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  5. This blue backpack is heavy.

    Цей синій рюкзак важкий.

    ruСиний рюкзак тяжёлый.

    deDieser blaue Rucksack ist schwer.

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Translations

1 languages

Forms

backpacks, backpacking, backpacked, backpacked
Base formbackpack · to backpack
3rd person singularbackpacks
Present participlebackpacking
Past simplebackpacked
Past participlebackpacked

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theybackpack
he, she, itbackpacks

Past simpleLesson

all personsbackpacked

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave backpacked
he, she, ithas backpacked

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill backpack

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • hike with a backpack:pack

Word family

6 related words

Collocations

3 patterns
  • his backpack on
  • backpack on the
  • has a backpack

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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