Meaning & use

spacewalk

noun·Academic

A period of activity by an astronaut outside a spacecraft while in space.

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The crew completed a six-hour spacewalk to repair the solar panels.

Her first spacewalk lasted much longer than any of her previous missions.

A note on using this word

Spacewalk can also be used as a verb, as in 'they spacewalked for repairs,' though the noun form is far more common.

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