pedestrianism
(pɪˈdɛstrɪənɪz(ə)m)
[f. as prec. + -ism.]
1. The practice of travelling on foot, walking; walking as an exercise or athletic performance.
| 1809 Sporting Mag. XXXIV. 162, I do not intend to level the least sarcasm at pedestrianism. 1813 W. Thom (title) Pedestrianism; or, An Account of the Performances of celebrated Pedestrians during the last and present Century. 1843 B. Cooper Life of Sir A. Cooper (L.), Captain Barclay's famous feat of pedestrianism—a thousand miles in a thousand hours. 1882 Sala Amer. Revis. (1885) 400 Comfortable pedestrianism in the greater number of young American towns is next door to an impossibility. |
2. Prosaic or commonplace quality of style.
| 1892 Sat. Rev. 21 May 602/1 An almost Wordsworthian pedestrianism of style. |