Travel

explore on foot

look around by walking

If you explore a place on foot, you look around it by walking rather than using transport.

B1 common speech & writing

expression

Hear it in real life

Should we take a taxi around the centre?

No, it is easy to explore on foot.

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We spent the afternoon exploring the old harbour on foot.

The mistake everyone makes

Not: We explored by foot.

Say: We explored on foot.

The fixed preposition in this expression is "on," not "by."

Build it

How it fits in a sentence.

explore a place on foot; be best explored on foot

Your turn: say it out loud

We spent the afternoon exploring the old harbour on foot.

Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.

explore on foot

look around by walking

“We spent the afternoon exploring the old harbour on foot.”

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