bushwalker

plural bushwalkers

1. AustraliaNew ZealandA hiker or backpacker.

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

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

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

   1997, Peter Prineas, Henry Gold, Wild Places: Wilderness in Eastern New South Wales, page 66

   The anthropologist Lisa Palmer has written about an analogous 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.

   2008, Chris Healy, Forgetting Aborigines, page 191