on foot meaning

1. Walking or running
2. In progress

[American idiom]
by walking.
• My bicycle is broken, so I'll have to travel on foot.
• You can't expect me to get there on foot! It's twelve miles!

[American slang]
[running or walking] using the feet.
  My car won't work so I have to travel on foot.
  We go everywhere around the campus on foot.

• foot:    Noun: foot (feet)& ...
• foot it:    [American slang]tr ...
• a foot in the door:    A first step towar ...

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1. in an instant the whole crew was on foot.
2. he vainly hope to travel round the world on foot.
3. we are going on foot, not by car.
4. he did 20 miles a day on foot.
5. i go to school usually on foot.