I am a doctoral student in ethnology. My doctoral project explores everyday practices of “going for a walk” and walking as a recreational practice. What are the meanings, values and imaginaries that get attached to walking as exercise, as social activity, as engagement with nature, or as other forms of voluntary practice? For whom, where, and when do meanings and values get attached, or not? How can going for a walk be understood as a ritual, and how do contemporary walking rituals compare to their historical antecedents in a Swedish context? If, as media and discursive material loudly proclaims, recreational walking has the power to change people for the better, what is the composition of this change-making process? What is the apparent or perceived wound, lack, or problem that motivates it? How does all of this change in different contexts, for different people or groups, in different circumstances? What are the overlaps and tensions between how walking is reified as an idea, ideal, symbol, semiotic object, and how walking happens? Can the latter even be adequately represented at all?