fastpack

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verb

To run while carrying a backpack on a multi-day trail.

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Meanings

verbfastpack (third-person singular simple present fastpacks, present participle fastpacking, simple past and past participle fastpacked)

present singular third person fastpacks · participle present fastpacking · participle past fastpacked · past fastpacked

  1. To run while carrying a backpack on a multi-day trail.

    In 1987, with fellow runner Will Uher, John fastpacked the 211-mile John Muir Trail in the Sierra Nevada in 8 1/2 days, carrying a 30-pound pack.

    2011, John Vonhof, Fixing Your Feet: Prevention and Treatments for Athletes, →ISBN, page 361
  2. To to backpacking with the goal of maximising the distance traveled every day.

    It was slowing her down in adventure races, and it was complicating her plans to fastpack a bunch of trails in New Zealand.

    2004 May, Katy Schafer, “The Challenge”, in Backpacker, volume 32, number 156, page 87

Origin

Blend of fast + backpack.

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APA

fastpack. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fastpack

MLA

“fastpack.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fastpack. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “fastpack,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fastpack.

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