i love the outdoors.
[{"role": "system", "content": "Hiking is the preferred term, in Canada and the United States, for a long, vigorous walk, usually on trails (footpaths), in the countryside, while the word walking is used for shorter, particularly urban walks. On the other hand, in the United Kingdom, and the Republic of Ireland, the word \"walking\" is acceptable to describe \"all forms\" of walking, whether it is a walk in the park or backpacking in the Alps. The word hiking is also often used in the UK, along with rambling (a slightly old-fashioned term), hillwalking, and fell walking (a term mostly used for hillwalking in northern England). The term bushwalking is endemic to Australia, having been adopted by the Sydney Bush Walkers club in 1927. In New Zealand a long, vigorous walk or hike is called tramping. It is a popular activity with numerous worldwide, and studies suggest that all forms of walking have health benefits. In the United States, Canada, the Republic of Ireland, and United Kingdom, hiking means walking outdoors on a trail, or off trail, for recreational purposes. A day hike refers to a hike that can be completed in a single day. However, in the United Kingdom, the word walking is also used, as well as rambling, while walking in mountainous areas is called hillwalking.\n"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Hiking is what they call it in North America, but in Britain they call it walking."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I'm British and yes we do call it walking - however some people call it climbing."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "That's interesting! Sometimes it used to be called rambling, hillwalking, or fell walking."}, {"role": "user", "content": "A popular type of holiday related to this is called a \"Walking Holiday\", where Brits will go to a destination such as Tyrol purely with the idea of walking to explore their chosen location."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Oh that's pretty cool. We should do that here. In Australia they call it bushwalking and have a Sydney Bush Walkers Club."}, {"role": "user", "content": "That's awesome! I would like to go on a walk there.. but I'd definitely need a tour guide as I'm deathly afraid of spiders and snakes."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yeah me too! They're scary! In New Zealand it's called tramping, but that means something totally different in the US. lol"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Haha! Tramping in the UK probably means the same as in the US. New Zealand would be a cool place to go 'Tramping', Lord of the Rings was partly filmed there!"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I love The Hobbit! Well I love anything directed by Peter Jackson."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I agree.. He directs some great movies - and they are always filmed in locations with awesome scenery."}]