What does "walk" mean?

Additional senses

1. 2.Note: In the walk of quadrupeds, there are always two, and for a brief space there are three, feet on the ground at once, but never four.
2. 3.To move or go on the feet for exercise or amusement; to take one's exercise; to ramble.
3. 4.To be stirring; to be abroad; to go restlessly about; -- said of things or persons expected to remain quiet, as a sleeping person, or the spirit of a dead person; to go about as a somnambulist or a specter. I have heard, but not believed, the spirits of the dead May walk again. Shak. When was it she last walked Shak.
4. 5.To be in motion; to act; to move; to wag. [Obs.] "Her tongue did walk in foul reproach." Spenser. Do you think I'd walk in any plot B. Jonson. I heard a pen walking in the chimney behind the cloth. Latimer.
5. 6.To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct one's self. We walk perversely with God, and he will walk crookedly toward us. Jer. Taylor.
6. 7.To move off; to depart. [Obs. or Colloq.] He will make their cows and garrans to walk. Spenser. To walk in, to go in; to enter, as into a house. -- To walk after the flesh (Script.), to indulge sensual appetites, and to live in sin. Rom. viii.
7. 8.-- To walk after the Spirit (Script.), to be guided by the counsels and influences of the Spirit, and by the word of God. Rom. viii.
8. 9.-- To walk by faith (Script.), to live in the firm belief of the gospel and its promises, and to rely on Christ for salvation. 2 Cor. v.
9. 10.-- To walk in darkness (Script.), to live in ignorance, error, and sin. 1 John i.
10. 11.-- To walk in the flesh (Script.), to live this natural life, which is subject to infirmities and calamities. 2 Cor. x.
11. 12.-- To walk in the light (Script.), to live in the practice of religion, and to enjoy its consolations. 1 John i.
12. 13.-- To walk over, in racing, to go over a course at a walk; -- said of a horse when there is no other entry; hence, colloquially, to gain an easy victory in any contest. -- To walk through the fire (Script.), to be exercised with severe afflictions. Isa. xliii.
13. 14.-- To walk with God (Script.), to live in obedience to his commands, and have communion with him.
14. 15.To pass through, over, or upon; to traverse; to perambulate; as, to walk the streets. As we walk our earthly round. Keble.
15. 16.To cause to walk; to lead, drive, or ride with a slow pace; as to walk one's horses. " I will rather trust . . . a thief to walk my ambling gelding." Shak.
16. 17.Etym: [AS. wealcan to roll. See Walk to move on foot.] To subject, as cloth or yarn, to the fulling process; to full. [Obs. or Scot.] To walk the plank, to walk off the plank into the water and be drowned; -- an expression derived from the practice of pirates who extended a plank from the side of a ship, and compelled those whom they would drown to walk off into the water; figuratively, to vacate an office by compulsion. Bartlett.
17. 18.The act of walking, or moving on the feet with a slow pace; advance without running or leaping.
18. 19.The act of walking for recreation or exercise; as, a morning walk; an evening walk.
19. 20.Manner of walking; gait; step; as, we often know a person at a distance by his walk.
20. 21.That in or through which one walks; place or distance walked over; a place for walking; a path or avenue prepared for foot passengers, or for taking air and exercise; way; road; hence, a place or region in which animals may graze; place of wandering; range; as, a sheep walk. A woody mountain . . . with goodliest trees Planted, with walks and bowers. Milton. He had walk for a hundred sheep. Latimer. Amid the sound of steps that beat The murmuring walks like rain. Bryant.
21. 22.A frequented track; habitual place of action; sphere; as, the walk of the historian. The mountains are his walks. Sandys. He opened a boundless walk for his imagination. Pope.
22. 23.Conduct; course of action; behavior.
23. 24.The route or district regularly served by a vender; as, a milkman's walk. [Eng.]