• (GA) IPA: /ˈwɔkɚ/
• (RP) IPA: /ˈwɔːkə/
• (Canada, cot-caught) IPA: /ˈwɑkɚ/

walker (plural walkers)

1. The agent noun of to walk#Verb|walk: a person who walks or a thing which walks, especially a pedestrian or a participant in a walking race#Noun|race.
   • 1815 December (indicated as 1816)​, [Jane Austen], chapter VIII, in Emma: A Novel. In Three Volumes, volume I, London: Printed [by Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, OCLC 1708336 ↗, page 118 ↗:

     I would ask for the pleasure of your company, Mr. Knightley, but I am a very slow walker, and my pace would be tedious to you; and, besides, you have another long walk before you, to Donwell Abbey.

   • 2005, Carlo De Vito, 10 Secrets My Dog Taught Me: Life Lessons from a Man's Best Friend (page 88)

     We hired a walker for the dogs during the day.

2. A walking frame.

   Synonyms: walking frame, Zimmer frame

3. (often, in the plural) A shoe designed for comfortable walking.
4. A zombie.
5. A male escort#Noun|escort who accompanies a woman to an event.
   • 1981, Spare rib: Volumes 108-119

     Women at the top — Lady Di and Nancy Reagan in particular — apparently have 'walkers' — men to escort them on public and private occasions providing a respectable cover, while the male who is their sexual partner is off on more pressing business.

   • 2007, The Walker (film about a male escort)
6. A gressorial bird.
7. (law) A forester.
8. (scifi) A kind of military robot or mecha with legs for locomotion.
   • 2011, Dave Wolverton, The Courtship of Princess Leia: Star Wars Legends (page 144)

     Two of the walkers circled the pillars. Their searchlights played through the trees, then turned back to Leia and the others.

   • 2019, Joe Meno, BrickJournal #60 (page 37)

     It also takes a good amount of inspiration from Metal Gear Solid 4s biomechanical designs, namely the Gekko walkers' and their synthetic musculature.

• walking frame
• rollator
• (British) Zimmer frame, zimmer frame

• French: marcheur
• Portuguese: andarilho
• Russian: ходо́к
• Spanish: caminante

• French: déambulateur
• Spanish: andador, andadera

walker (plural walkers)

1. (now rare) Synonym of fuller#English|fuller.

1. Surname from the occupation of treating cloth by "walking" it.
2. A male given name.
3. A placename
   1. A location in the United States of America.
      1. A city in Iowa, USA.
      2. A city in Louisiana, USA.
      3. A city in Michigan, USA.
      4. A small city/county seat in Cass County, Minnesota.
      5. A city in Missouri, USA.
      6. CDP in Mono County, California.
   2. A location in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
      1. A suburb in the Newcastle upon Tyne (OS grid ref NZ2864).

1. (UK, archaic, slang) Expressing scornful rejection or disbelief.

• fiddlesticks, horsefeathers, pull the other one; see also Thesaurus:bullshit