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walking on

walking on is the present participle and gerund of walk on.

Meaning of walk on

Verb

walk on (third-person singular simple present walks on, present participle walking on, simple past and past participle walked on)

  1. To come onstage.
    • He walks on after your line.
  2. (idiomatic) To join a college sports team without being recruited for it.
    • He walked on this year.
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see walk, on.

Questions about walking on

What is walking on the present participle and gerund of?
Walking on is the present participle and gerund of walk on.

Words near walking on in the dictionary

  1. walking mattress
  2. walking mattresses
  3. walking off
  4. walking off the job
  5. walking off with
  6. walking on
  7. walking on air
  8. walking on broken glass
  9. walking on by
  10. walking on eggshells
  11. walking on sunshine

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Adapted from Wiktionary: walking on (page history and authors); walk on (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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