tramp, hobo, bum: a disreputable vagrant; "a homeless tramp"; "he tried to help the really down-and-out bums" swinger, tramp: a person who engages freely in promiscuous sex hiker, tramp, tramper: a foot traveler; someone who goes on an extended walk (for pleasure) tramp: a heavy footfall; "the tramp of military boots" tramp_steamer, tramp: a commercial steamer for hire; one having no regular schedule hike, tramp: a long walk usually for exercise or pleasure tramp: travel on on foot, especially on a walking expedition; "We went tramping about the state of Colorado" slog, footslog, plod, trudge, pad, tramp: walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud; "Mules plodded in a circle around a grindstone" tramp: cross on foot; "We had to tramp the creeks" : move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment; "The gypsies roamed the woods"; "roving vagabonds"; "the wandering Jew"; "The cattle roam across the prairie"; "the laborers drift from one town to the next"; "They rolled from town to town"