New Zealand runner who in 1975 became the first person to run a mile in less that 3 minutes and 50 seconds (born in 1952).

synonym: John Walker.

United States writer (born in 1944).

synonyms: Alice Malsenior Walker, Alice Walker.

A person who travels by foot.

synonyms: footer, pedestrian.

Roget 268: traveler, wayfarer, voyager, itinerant, passenger, commuter.    tourist, excursionist, explorer, adventurer, mountaineer, hiker, backpacker, Alpine Club; peregrinator^†, wanderer, rover, straggler, rambler; bird of passage; gadabout, gadling^†; vagrant, scatterling^†, landloper^†, waifs and estrays^†, wastrel, foundling; loafer; tramp, tramper; vagabond, nomad, Bohemian, gypsy, Arab^†, Wandering Jew, Hadji, pilgrim, palmer; peripatetic; somnambulist, emigrant, fugitive, refugee; beach comber, booly^†; globegirdler^†, globetrotter; vagrant, hobo [U.S.], night walker, sleep walker; noctambulist, runabout, straphanger, swagman, swagsman [Austral.]; trecker^†, trekker, zingano^†, zingaro^†.    runner, courier; Mercury, Iris, Ariel^†, comet.    pedestrian, walker, foot passenger; cyclist; wheelman.    rider, horseman, equestrian, cavalier, jockey, roughrider, trainer, breaker.    driver, coachman, whip, Jehu, charioteer, postilion, postboy^†, carter, wagoner, drayman^†; cabman, cabdriver; voiturier^†, vetturino^†, condottiere^†; engine driver; stoker, fireman, guard; chauffeur, conductor, engineer, gharry-wallah^†, gari-wala^†, hackman, syce^†, truckman^†.    ... show more

Dutch: voetgangers-, voetganger
Polish: pieszy

A shoe designed for comfortable walking.

A light enclosing framework (trade name Zimmer) with rubber castors or wheels and handles; helps invalids or the handicapped or the aged to walk.

synonyms: Zimmer, Zimmer frame.

Polish: balkonik

An enclosing framework on casters or wheels; helps babies learn to walk.

synonyms: baby-walker, go-cart.

Dutch: loophek, looprek
Polish: chodzik