Word.ws English Dictionary

walking distance

walking distance noun: a distance that a person can reasonably walk.

Noun

walking distance (countable and uncountable, plural walking distances)

  1. A distance that a person can reasonably walk.
    • Measuring the Walkable Community The Charter of the New Urbanism states that “many activities of daily living should occur within walking distance,
      allowing independence to those who do not drive, especially the elderly and the young.[...”]2017, Philip Langdon, Within Walking Distance: Creating Livable Communities for All, Island Press, →ISBN, page 22
    • The lower the population density, the lower the risk of herd mentality running amok.
      The greater the quantity of food grown within walking distance, the lower the risk of starvation.2021 November 23, Charles Hugh Smith, When Risk and Opportunity Become Personal

Forms of walking distance

pluralwalking distances

Questions about walking distance

What does walking distance mean?
Walking distance means a distance that a person can reasonably walk.
What part of speech is walking distance?
Walking distance is a noun.
What is the plural of walking distance?
The plural of walking distance is walking distances.

Words near walking distance in the dictionary

  1. walking delegate
  2. walking delegates
  3. walking dictionaries
  4. walking dictionary
  5. walking disease
  6. walking distance
  7. walking distances
  8. walking down
  9. walking dustbin
  10. walking dustbins
  11. walking encyclopaedia

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: walking distance (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “walking distance.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/walking_distance. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.