traipsed; traipsing
: to go on foot : walk
traipsed over to the restaurant
children traipsing at her heels
also
: to walk or travel about without apparent plan but with or without a purpose
a week traipsing through the Ozarks
traipsing from office to office
traipse
noun
Examples of traipse in a Sentence
I traipsed all over town looking for the right dress.
I'm too old to go traipsing around Europe.
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Your first step isn’t to look at the video—that would be like traipsing through a crime scene.
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Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 24 Jan. 2026
There are still Targaryens and characters hitting one another with sharp implements, but this show follows a relatively small-scale story of a knight and his squire traipsing around Westeros.
—Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 16 Jan. 2026
In November, the newest jaguar on the scene, nicknamed Cinco, was seen traipsing through the southeastern borderlands.
—Sarah Henry, AZCentral.com, 14 Jan. 2026
As such, its mass of untamed, scrubby green can today be traipsed through on foot or horseback, via ethereal blue coves such as Cala Marinella, the odd wandering fox and to the soothing rhythm of Aleppo pines rustling in the hot wind.
—Rosalyn Wikeley, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Jan. 2026
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Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 24 Jan. 2026
There are still Targaryens and characters hitting one another with sharp implements, but this show follows a relatively small-scale story of a knight and his squire traipsing around Westeros.
—Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 16 Jan. 2026
In November, the newest jaguar on the scene, nicknamed Cinco, was seen traipsing through the southeastern borderlands.
—Sarah Henry, AZCentral.com, 14 Jan. 2026
As such, its mass of untamed, scrubby green can today be traipsed through on foot or horseback, via ethereal blue coves such as Cala Marinella, the odd wandering fox and to the soothing rhythm of Aleppo pines rustling in the hot wind.
—Rosalyn Wikeley, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Jan. 2026
See All Example Sentences for traipse
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“Traipse.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/traipse. Accessed 28 Jan. 2026.
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