Walker

A walker is a tool to help the infirm to get around. See: walker (tool)

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Walker may mean "someone who walks". See: walking and pedestrian.

Related Topics:
Walking - Pedestrian

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Walker may mean "a machine that walks". See: "walker (machine)".

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Walker may refer to more than one place:

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• In England:
• Walker-on-Tyne, a village now within Newcastle upon Tyne in England, the name derived from Old English Wall-kjer, "Wall marsh", the marsh beside Hadrian's Wall
• In the United States:
• Walker, Iowa
• Walker, Louisiana
• Walker, Michigan
• Walker, Minnesota
• Walker, Missouri

Walker is also a common English surname. The name comes from the medieval profession of a ‘walker’- a person who trod on woollen clothes in a bath of urine in order to wash them. For people with the surname Walker see .

Related Topics:
Medieval - Bath - Urine

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Walker may also refer to:

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• Walker, a 1987 motion picture about William Walker
• Walker, Texas Ranger, U.S. television program
• Friedmann-Lemaître-Robertson-Walker, a metric used in cosmology
• Hiram Walker, a Canadian distillery
• Jed Walker, a comic book character
• Junior Walker and the All Stars, a musical group
• Riddley Walker, a 1980 novel by Russell Hoban
• Walker Art Gallery, in Liverpool, UK
• Walker Art Center, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
• Walker Lake (multiple locations)
• Walker Pass, in California, USA
• Walker Percy, U.S. author
• Walker River (multiple locations)
• Walker tariff, an 1846 U.S. tariff
• Walker, an Amiga 500 game