[noneeeed]

This made me chuckle:

"And of course the many high-school students doing Duke of Edinburgh’s Award hikes, often with looks of total dejection and sadness, and certainly with much stink, but always with an impressive commitment."

Been there, done that, got the blisters. Totally worth it looking back, got me into walkin, but not sure I understood it at the time.

[RamblingCTO]

Is walkin' the british slang for hiking?

[RamblingCTO]

Why are you downvoting me for an honest question? I've seen it a bunch of times being used in a place where I would've used hiking and I'd love to hear more. People these days ...

[jpsouth]

To answer your question, no, it isn’t. It’s ‘walking’ with the ‘g’ omitted, presumably as that’s how the poster would speak in person (lots of British people, myself included, would say ‘walkin’ depending on their dialect/accent).

A hike is a long walk, but while you hike, you are walking.

[RamblingCTO]

Got it, thanks!

[sw104]

Don't know why you're being downvoted. Walkin' isn't really slang but most people use walking/hiking interchangeably.

Hiking is just more official/more serious, like 'running' as opposed to 'jogging'.

[NikkiA]

And ramblin, don't forget ramblin.

eg: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ramblers

[RamblingCTO]

Love it! I'm also an avid long distance hiker haha

[RamblingCTO]

Okay got it, so it's not like hiking is more in a hilly area (but I would guess more probably because it's more serious) or something. I also wondered if when you use walking you wouldn't use hiking. Thanks!

[qingcharles]

As a Britisher I generally using hiking more when it is a slog; that is to say, when there are more hills or countryside involved.

[noneeeed]

Goodness, everyone seems to be getting very worked up over my typo. I meant to type "walking".

Downvoting you for asking was silly.

[RamblingCTO]

I think people might've gotten worked up because they felt I was mocking you because of the missing g. I just copied how you used it though, being quite aware that it's walking ...