backpack
/ˈbæk.pæk/
backpack noun: a knapsack, sometimes mounted on a light frame, but always supported by straps, worn on a person’s back for the purpose of carrying things, especially when hiking, or on a student's back when carrying books.
Noun
backpack (plural backpacks)
- A knapsack, sometimes mounted on a light frame, but always supported by straps, worn on a person’s back for the purpose of carrying things, especially when hiking, or on a student's back when carrying books.
- Rachel discovered that she could also keep things in her backpack that were important to her, nobody would know about them because they would be hidden. These important things included a small round rock that she had found […]2011, Thelma J. Miller, What's in Your Backpack?, page 8
- Many seats carry reservation labels, while the luggage racks are festooned with backpacks and suitcases.2022 November 30, Paul Bigland, “Destination Oban: a Sunday in Scotland”, in RAIL, number 971, page 77
- A similarly placed item containing a parachute or other life support equipment.
Verb
backpack (third-person singular simple present backpacks, present participle backpacking, simple past and past participle backpacked)
- To hike and camp overnight in backcountry with one's gear carried in a backpack.
- I spent a month backpacking in the Rockies.
- To engage in low-cost, generally urban, travel with minimal luggage and frugal accommodation.
- To place or carry (an item or items) in a backpack.
- Astronauts backpack oxygen during spacewalks.
- I planned to go to jungle today and backpacked my things which contained^([sic]) food and a note book.2020, Akara September 2020 Magazine, page 103
backpack meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
backpack in Hindi
- worn on a person's back, e.g., for hiking
- बैकपैक baikpaik
backpack in Tamil
- முதுகுப்பை, முதுகில் அணியும் பை, தோள்பை, சுமைப்பை
backpack in Urdu
- worn on a person's back, e.g., for hiking
- بَیک پَیک baik paik
backpack in Bengali
- worn on a person's back, e.g., for hiking
- ব্যাকপ্যাক bêkoppak
More languagesFewer languages
- backpack in Gujarati
- દફતર daphtar
- backpack in Tagalog
- kabalyas, bag
- backpack in Arabic
- حَقِيبَة ظَهْر ḥaqībat ẓahr
- backpack in Malay
- ransel, beg galas
- backpack in Indonesian
- ransel, tas punggung
- backpack in Thai
- เป้ bpêe, กระเป๋าเป้สะพายหลัง grà-bpǎo bpêe sà-paai lǎng
- backpack in Vietnamese
- ba lô
- backpack in Myanmar
- ကျောပိုးအိတ် kyau:pui:it
Examples of backpack in a sentence
- Somehow, she squashed all her books into her backpack, which was now too heavy to carry.
- My sleeping bag fell off my backpack into the water, while we were knapsacking up the mountain.
- I put my e-dictionary in my backpack and headed off to school.
Synonyms of backpack
Forms of backpack
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | backpacks |
| alternative form | back pack |
| alternative form | bagpack |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | backpacks |
| present participle | backpacking |
| past participle | backpacked |
| past | backpacked |
Origin of backpack
From back + pack. First attested in 1896.
Words formed from backpack
Phrases with backpack
Questions about backpack
- What does backpack mean?
- Backpack means a knapsack, sometimes mounted on a light frame, but always supported by straps, worn on a person’s back for the purpose of carrying things, especially when hiking, or on a student's back when carrying books.
- What is backpack in Hindi?
- Backpack in Hindi is बैकपैक (baikpaik). See Backpack meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is backpack?
- Backpack can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce backpack?
- Backpack is pronounced /ˈbæk.pæk/.
- What is the plural of backpack?
- The plural of backpack is backpacks.
Words near backpack in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: backpack (page history and authors); backpack (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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