Meaning of barefooter | Babel Free

Definitions

1. One who takes part in water skiing without wearing water skis.
2. A person who chooses not to wear shoes or socks.

Examples

“A barefooter can perform⟳ such tricks as one-foot barefoot, tumble turns, crossing wakes, and toehold barefoot. Wake⟳ crossing is achieved in much the same fashion as it is on two skis.”

“In 1950, a waterskiing competition in Florida included a barefoot waterskiing event. The barefooter who could barefoot water-ski for the longest time won this event. Barefooters began performing tricks such as tumbleturns and skiing backward in the early 1960s.”

“A Calgarian barefooter by the name⟳ of Jay Winkler doesn’t even let⟳ Canadian winters slow him down. He says he particularly loves bare-hoofing along a high mountain trail around Emerald Lake, B.C.”

“Julia Hill is a barefooter extraordinaire. She spent two years living in a California redwood in a crusade to protect⟳ the state’s last⟳ remaining oldgrowth redwood forest[…] She always climbed the tree, which she named Luna, barefoot, even in the dead of winter, saying that she “had to have⟳ the connection.””

“Within three weeks of beginning her paper route, Wise had become⟳ a 24/7 barefooter, and she no longer had pain in her knees. […] Wise became a barefooting activist after she was told by a manager at Market of Choice that she couldn’t be in the store without shoes.”

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