Other forms: walkers
A walker is somebody who walks, and walks for the pleasure of it. Boots, a map in a plastic case, a flask of tea, and a path that is busy with walkers by ten on a Sunday morning.
It is a plain build — walk plus -er, the same ending that makes runner, driver and teacher — so anyone who can say walk can say walker. The other big meaning is the frame: the light metal frame on legs or wheels that somebody leans on to get across a room, which American English calls a walker and British English calls a Zimmer frame. A baby walker is the wheeled seat a toddler scoots about in. Dog walker is a job, and a busy one. A walker is not a walkway: one is a person, the other is a path.
1nounwalkerA person who walks, especially for exercise or pleasure.
“Two walkers came down off the hill just as the light went.”
synonyms: hiker, rambler
2nounframeA light frame on legs or wheels that someone leans on in order to walk.
“He crossed the ward slowly, leaning on his walker.”
Too few real examples of this word to estimate which sense is commonest.
walker is a person.
Walker is Middle English walkere, meaning one who walks or a traveller — walk with the plain -er that turns a verb into the person doing it. Bake gives baker, teach gives teacher, walk gives walker.
Middle English
walkere — one who walks, traveller
English, today
walker
From Middle English walkere (“one who walks, traveller”), equivalent to walk + -er.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA