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sleepwalking

nounB2+Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #9,889 of 15,258leans spoken

Sleepwalking is walking about while still asleep. A history of sleepwalking.

It is commonest in children and usually stops by itself. Waking a sleepwalking person is not dangerous, whatever the old warning says, though it is confusing for them.

Ivan Kramskoi · Public domain

Definitions of sleepwalking

  1. 1nounsleepwalkingWalking about while still asleep.B2+

    “The sleepwalking stopped at about eleven and never came back.”

sleepwalking is a condition.

Where it comes from

sleepwalk comes from sleep + walk.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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sleepwalking in the wild

  • Although sleepwalking cases generally consist of simple, repeated behaviors, there are occasionally reports of people performing complex behaviors while asleep, although their legitimacy is often disputed.

    Sleepwalking

  • Winner puts forth the idea that we are simply in a state of sleepwalking in our mediations with technology.

    Technological somnambulism

  • Act 5, Scene 1, better known as the sleepwalking scene, is a critically celebrated scene from William Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth.

    Sleepwalking scene

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.