英和和英

名詞

walkalong (複数形 walkalongs)

1. (sociology) A type of interview in which the interviewer and subject walk together while talking.
   • 2014, Garth Lean, Russell Staff, editor, Stories of Cosmopolitan Belonging: Emotion and Location‎^[1], →ISBN:

     The method of walkalongs, first described by Margarethe Kusenbach (2003), combines interview and observation.

   • 2016, Garth Lean, Emma Watson, “Travel and Imagination: An Invitation”, in Garth Lean, Russell Staff, editor, Travel and Imagination‎^[2], →ISBN:

     This chapter draws on our ethnographic analysis of the diaries, walkalongs and followup conversations with Janet, who had recently resigned from a managerial position to look after her first child.

2. A police detail or other group that walks with someone.
   • 1988 August 26, Steve Bogira, Hank De Zutter, Ron Dorfman, Robert McClory, David Moberg, Grant Pick, Gary Rivlin, “They Were There”, in Chicago Reader‎^[3]:

     In the period before, when Martin Luther King was here walking through the different neighborhoods, I was in the walkalongs, the police protection, on the north side and on the south side.

3. A small forklift used for pallets.
   • 1961, Modern Castings‎^[4], volume 40, page 44:

     All fork lift trucks, platform trucks, walkalongs, cranes, and four-wheeled trucks should be checked for capacities.

4. A dandy-horse, a 19th-century precursor of the bicycle.
   • 1972, George S. Fichter, Bicycling‎^[5], →ISBN, page 17:

     They were called walkalongs, dandy horses, hobby-horses, or Draisines.