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fastpacked

fastpacked is the simple past and past participle of fastpack.

Meaning of fastpack

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

Questions about fastpacked

What is fastpacked the simple past and past participle of?
Fastpacked is the simple past and past participle of fastpack.

Words near fastpacked in the dictionary

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

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