backpack
/ˈbakpak
/noun
1A rucksack.If you don't attend many conferences you won't have noticed that it seems to be fashionable to give out rucksacks, backpacks and haversacks as freebies to delegates....
- Their leaking backpacks trailed sleeping bags and blankets, and one had a scruffy dog.
- And she grabbed her duffel bag and her backpack and hopped out, hoping that she could become invisible in three seconds.
1.1A piece of equipment carried on a person’s back: he went to the trunk and pulled out a two-tank scuba backpack...
- You can also establish certain wanzers as support units, such as repair backpacks to ‘heal’ allies or EMP backpacks to jam enemy equipment.
- There are spotty wellies, hairy boots, bags, long coats, gilets, hats and warm gear for babies along with backpacks to carry them in.
- As well as broadcasters in the commentary boxes there will be half a dozen radio engineers carrying backpacks within a half a mile radius accompanying the presenters to broadcast the reaction of the crowds on the ground.
verb [no object] (usually as noun backpacking)
Travel or hike carrying one’s belongings in a rucksack: a week’s backpacking in the Pyrenees...
- When backpacking, carrying your own towel is always a plus.
- Brad built it to mimic the old growth forests he admired while hiking and backpacking as a kid.
- For awhile this was fine. I mean, people grow and I wanted to get back to hiking and backpacking.