different between backpacking vs knapsack

backpacking

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Verb

backpacking

present participle of backpack

Noun

backpacking (uncountable)

hiking and camping overnight in backcountry with one's gear carried in a backpack.
low-cost, generally urban, travel with minimal luggage and frugal accommodations.

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knapsack

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Etymology

From Low German knapzak or Dutch knapzak (older form cnapsack), from Middle Dutch cnappen (“to bite with teeth”), ultimately from knappen (“to eat, crack”), of imitative origin, + sack. German Knappsack is from Dutch.

Noun

knapsack (plural knapsacks)

(chiefly US) A case of canvas or leather, for carrying items on the back.
(cryptography) A set of values from which a subset is chosen.

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backpack
rucksack

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knapsack (third-person singular simple present knapsacks, present participle knapsacking, simple past and past participle knapsacked)

To go hiking while burdened with a knapsack, usually overnight or for longer.
My sleeping bag fell off my backpack into the water, while we were knapsacking up the mountain.

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backpack

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knapsack

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