Walkabout (disambiguation)

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Contents 1 Arts 2 Television 3 Movies 4 Music 5 Other 6 Slang usage

Walkabout can mean:

• The walkabout, an Australian aboriginal ritual of manhood; also go walkabout.

[edit] Arts

• Walkabout (novel), a book written by James Vance Marshall.
• Walkabout (film), a film based on the novel (also adapted for the stage).

[edit] Television

• "Walkabout (Babylon 5)", a Babylon 5 episode, and a thematic arc starting from "Grey 17 is Missing".
• Walkabout (Millennium), a Millennium episode (17, first season).
• "Walkabout", an episode of Gargoyles (TV series).
• "Walkabout (Lost)", an episode of Lost.
• "Walkabout (Robin Hood), an episode from the second series of Robin Hood

[edit] Movies

• ""Crocodile" Dundee", the plot of this movie surrounds the fact that Mick Crocodile Dundee goes on a walkabout to New York city.

[edit] Music

• "Walkabout", a song on Red Hot Chili Peppers' album One Hot Minute.
• Walkabout (album), an album by The Fixx.
• Walkabout (Najwa Nimri album), an album by Najwa Nimri.
• "Walkabout", a song by The Sugarcubes from the album Stick Around for Joy.
• "Walkabout", a song by Nik Kershaw from the album The Works.

[edit] Other

• Walkabout (pub chain) is an Australian-themed pub chain.
• Walkabout magazine was an Australian travel magazine popular in the 1950s.
• Walkabout, a 1997 refinement of the Visitor pattern in Software engineering.
• Gulf Coast WalkAbout is a program of the National Youth Leadership Council as part of its Resources for Recovery Initiative in response to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in the United States Gulf Coast.

[edit] Slang usage

• Jocularly, someone or thing that has disappeared permanently or temporarily is said to have 'gone walkabout', for example, "Ainslie, have you seen my stapler? It's gone walkabout again." Also 'gone walkies'.
• In the UK, organized events in which members of the British Royal Family walk past assembled crowds of onlookers.
• A person's desire to travel without a planned itinerary or set destination; the more common English term is wanderlust.