English

Noun

bushwalker ‎(plural bushwalkers)

1. (Australia, New Zealand) A hiker or backpacker.
   • 1997, Peter Prineas, Henry Gold, Wild Places: Wilderness in Eastern New South Wales, page 66,

     In the following years the Kanangra country became the object of a mild form of cult worship as bushwalkers discovered its many delights […] .

   • 2007, Claire Smith, Heather Burke, Digging It Up Down Under: A Practical Guide to Doing Archaeology in Australia, page 98,

     There are numerous stories of bushwalkers spending several hours up a tree waiting for a wild pig to go away.

   • 2008, Chris Healy, Forgetting Aborigines, page 191,

     The anthropologist Lisa Palmer has written about an analagous but different situation in her study of non-indigenous bushwalkers in Kakadu. She writes very eloquently about the conflicts that have emerged in Kakadu where the Bininj/Mungguy have attempted to limit bushwalker access to the stone country in particular.

Related terms

• bushwalking

See also

• bushwhacker