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Backpacker vs Backpacking - What's the difference?

backpacker | backpacking |

As nouns the difference between backpacker and backpacking

is that backpacker is a traveler whose luggage consists of a backpack; especially , such a traveler who uses hostels, public transport, and other inexpensive services while backpacking is hiking and camping overnight in backcountry with one's gear carried in a backpack.

As a verb backpacking is

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backpacker

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A traveler whose luggage consists of a backpack; especially , such a traveler who uses hostels, public transport, and other inexpensive services.

    • backpacking

    English

    Verb

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    • Noun

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  • hiking and camping overnight in backcountry with one's gear carried in a backpack.
  • low-cost, generally urban, travel with minimal luggage and frugal accommodations.