walk
n. countablen. a journey you make on foot, usually for pleasure or exercise.
n. a journey made on foot, typically for recreation or exercise.
We go for a walk every evening.
The doctor recommended a brisk thirty-minute walk each day to improve his circulation.
Their long walk along the windswept coastal path gave them ample time to discuss the future without the usual distractions of daily life.
From Middle English walken (“to move, walk, roll, turn, revolve, toss”), a conflation of Old English wealcan (“to move round, revolve, roll, turn, toss”) (ġewealcan (“to go, traverse”)) and Old English wealcian (“to curl, roll up”); both from Proto-West Germanic walkan, from Proto-Germanic walkaną, walkōną (“to twist, turn, roll about, full”), from Proto-Indo-European walg- (“to twist, turn, move”). Cognate with Scots walk (“to walk”), Saterland Frisian walkje (“to full; drum; flex; mill”), West Frisian swalkje (“to wander, roam”), Dutch walken (“to full, work hair or felt”), Dutch zwalken (“to wander about”), German walken (“to flex, full, mill, drum”), Danish valke (“to waulk, full”), Latin valgus (“bandy-legged, bow-legged”), Sanskrit वल्गति (válgati, “amble, bound, leap, dance”). More at vagrant and whelk. Doublet of waulk.
From Middle English walk, walke, walc, from Old English wealc (as in Old English wealcspinl) and ġewealc (“a rolling motion, attack”), from Proto-Germanic walką. Cognate with Icelandic válk (“a rolling around, a tossing to and fro, trouble, distress”).
Commonly used in the phrases 'go for a walk' or 'take a walk'.
I like to make a walk.I like to take a walk.The standard collocations are 'take a walk' or 'go for a walk', not 'make a walk'.