MEANING
To walk, often for a long distance or through inconvenience, with weariness or little enthusiasm.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- traipse across town
- traipse through mud
On the page
They traipsed across town to find the office closed.
She traipsed through the mud carrying the papers above her head.
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Word forms
- Base
- traipse
- Past tense
- traipsed
- Past participle
- traipsed
- Present participle
- traipsing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- traipse
- Present continuous
- am/is/are traipsing
- Present perfect
- have/has traipsed
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been traipsing
- Past
- traipsed
- Past continuous
- was/were traipsing
- Past perfect
- had traipsed
- Past perfect continuous
- had been traipsing
- Future
- will traipse
- Future continuous
- will be traipsing
- Future perfect
- will have traipsed
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been traipsing
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: literary. Forms: traipse; traipses; traipsed; traipsed; traipsing Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: traipses.
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