(v. i.) To walk or run about in a slatternly, careless, or thoughtless manner.
Example Sentences:
(1) This summer, my partner and I traipsed through Bedfordshire’s fields with our son, then two, and daughter, six months old, to join the protest outside Yarl’s Wood detention centre .
(2) That feels a lot more in the Christmas spirit than traipsing round the shops on the high street.
(3) The Pavlovic family, unaware of her fate and assisted by the Serbian embassy, spent three days traipsing from hospitals to morgues searching for her, reporting back to Aca as he recovered from his own surgeries at l’hôpital de Kremlin‑Bicêtre.
(4) There's only so much traipsing sodden hills one person can do; once your Pringles supply from the nearest point of civilisation has been depleted, and anyone with bones ripe for jumping carries the risk of a shared grandparent, it's a wonder more people don't while away the long nights with a spot of leisurely murder.
(5) The fact that we no longer had to traipse to our local chemist to develop a roll of holiday snaps encouraged us to experiment – after all, on a digital camera, the image could be easily deleted if we didn't like the results.
(6) "We've been traipsing through the fields of southern Illinois, and it is worse than the government says."
(7) For decades, instead of a long public process during which candidates traipsed from Iowa to New Hampshire and onwards across the country for series of primaries and caucuses, presidential nominees were chosen in overheated convention halls and the smoke-filled rooms in adjacent hotels.
(8) Currently, most stations have highly partisan commentators with intimate knowledge of their local clubs, who traipse around the country, broadcasting back to their local listeners.
(9) Things took a turn for the ridiculous from the beginning: while the traditional format of the show pairs one man and one woman together for the 21-day challenge, Rogen and Franco were both disappointed to learn that they were not going to spend the better part of a month traipsing through the woods with a naked, sinewy female companion but rather one another.
(10) Yet the worry is banks will mount a further legal challenge to the OFT's ruling, traipsing through the courts again, and this is where the PM comes in.
(11) Uruguay and Germany or Spain stand between the Dutch No10 and a quartet of prizes that would remove the right of all elite players to traipse home from tournaments moaning they were tired.
(12) I know this because I spent all last week not just in the poorest slums where Ebola is spreading but also traipsing around all the big charities’ Monrovia offices, trying to figure out who, if anyone, was doing anything for orphans.
(13) He also dismissed Hammond’s earlier remarks to Sky News that it would not be effective to have a “sort of committee of 10 traipsing in and out trying to talk to Russia”.
(14) As the world's leaders traipse home from Copenhagen, activist rock stars are doing the same, with Thom Yorke complaining that he feels "deeply traumatised" by his time at the UN climate change conference.
(15) Traipsing the kilometre-long gauntlet of novelty structures, past Daniel Libeskind’s twisted totem poles for Siemens and Norman Foster’s €60m rippling pink concrete walls for the United Arab Emirates , it’s hard not to see the whole endeavour as a monumentally misplaced allocation of resources.
(16) Egypt's attacks on press freedom unprecedented, says watchdog Read more The imagery of Cameron traipsing around an urban landscape that still bore the scars of revolutionary struggle was designed to convey a particular message: after decades of providing steadfast support to one of the Middle East’s most entrenched autocrats, Britain was supposedly ready to embrace a new type of politics.
(17) Aspiring assassin Arya Stark traipses the country with her fellow fugitive, the currish Hound, who finally got fed up with King Joffrey.
(18) "I'm not a fan of airports," says Richard Wilson, getting into the lift at the end of a low-ceilinged corridor, after traipsing through Heathrow's warren of tunnels and travelators.
(19) The whole point of a car is that you should drive it aggressively off road, spilling dirt and gravel over the bunny huggers who are traipsing around National Trust properties while nibbling on their falafel and ciabatta sandwiches.
(20) Alexander said: “Suggesting that Britain’s diplomatic role could only ever be as part of a so-called ‘traipsing committee of 10’ tells you a great deal more about the foreign secretary than it does about the United Kingdom.” Hammond retorted that “perhaps General Sir Richard Shirreff should consider carefully the meaning of the word irrelevance and where it might best be applied”.
Trapes
Definition:
(n.) A slattern; an idle, sluttish, or untidy woman.
(v. i.) To go about in an idle or slatternly fashion; to trape; to traipse.
Example Sentences:
(1) In these cases the aneurysm has been traped by ligation of the internal carotid artery in the neck and its supraclinoid course and at the same time and extracranial intracranial anastomosis performed.
(2) Case report about a 53 year old man, suffering from sudden suffocation, caused by inflammatory laryngeal edema following a foreign body traping in the esophagus with consecutive abscess and phlegmona of the esophageal wall.