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fastpack

fastpack verb: to run while carrying a backpack on a multi-day trail.

Verb

fastpack (third-person singular simple present fastpacks, present participle fastpacking, simple past and past participle fastpacked)

  1. To run while carrying a backpack on a multi-day trail.
    • In 1987, with fellow runner Will Uher, John fastpacked the 211-mile John Muir Trail in the Sierra Nevada in 8 1/2 days, carrying a 30-pound pack.2011, John Vonhof, Fixing Your Feet: Prevention and Treatments for Athletes, →ISBN, page 361
  2. To to backpacking with the goal of maximising the distance traveled every day.
    • It was slowing her down in adventure races, and it was complicating her plans to fastpack a bunch of trails in New Zealand.2004 May, Katy Schafer, “The Challenge”, in Backpacker, volume 32, number 156, page 87

Forms of fastpack

third-person singular presentfastpacks
present participlefastpacking
past participlefastpacked
pastfastpacked

Origin of fastpack

Blend of fast + backpack.

Questions about fastpack

What does fastpack mean?
Fastpack means to run while carrying a backpack on a multi-day trail.
What part of speech is fastpack?
Fastpack is a verb.
What is the past tense of fastpack?
The past tense of fastpack is fastpacked.

Words near fastpack in the dictionary

  1. fastmoving
  2. fastness
  3. fastnesses
  4. Fastnet
  5. fastpaced
  6. fastpack
  7. fastpacked
  8. fastpacker
  9. fastpackers
  10. fastpacking
  11. fastpacks

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