Meaning of walkalong | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A type of interview in which the interviewer and subject walk together while talking.
2. A police detail or other group that walks with someone.
3. A small forklift used for pallets.
4. A dandy-horse, a 19th-century precursor of the bicycle.

Examples

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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