backpacking

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the activity of travelling while carrying your clothes and other things that you need in a backpack, usually not spending very much money and staying in places that are not expensive:

to go backpacking

a backpacking trip/holiday

Can America be cheap enough for backpacking?

the activity of walking from place to place in the countryside, carrying the things you need in a backpack and camping at night:

I used to hike to photograph waterfalls, and that grew into a love of backpacking.

Head out from Dog Canyon campground for an overnight backpacking trip down the Tejas Trail.