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It's a thing. There are books!

What next - Wild Climbing? Wild Birdwatching?

we used to just call it cycling.

Wild Walking and Wild Pissing.  Natural companions to Wild Boozing.

Wild neophobia.  Old men stand outside reading aloud definitions of new words, or new uses for old words, until one of them expires through outrage. 

See also 'wild swimming'

I think it means cycling in places you are not normally allowed to be riding.  

Footpaths, private land, that sort of thing.

I've committed self abuse in my tent several times in the past, had I invented Wild Wanking?

I recon so but if more that one participant then it’s just dogging isn’t it?

I reckon you need a wild spell checker?

Wild Kimming?

Or Wilde Kimming as it was known in olden days.

Not sure, maybe Wild Dogging? Or is that Dingo-ing

But this is neither a new word nor a new use for an old word. 

I suspect it goes with the rise in "Gravel bikes" which are basically 90s mountain bikes in modern materials.

My Gravel bike is a 90's Mountain bike.

'94 Marin Bear Valley SE with drop bars if you wanted to know. Which you didn't. Because you're not a dork. 

Isn't that we always used to just call neophobia. FFS........

Wild rewilding. Not rewilding the tamed bits of nature; rewilding the already wild bits, but making them twice as wild. 

If you're welding outdoors then you may well want to subscribe to the new journal

Wild Welder's World?

What is your were wielding a welder somewhere wild?

Wild welder wielding world is the trade magazine.  

Wanton or furious cycling is an offence, since 1861 apparently. Is this something similar?

I occasionally do furious cycling. 

You clearly know jackall about this sort of stuff. 

Dont you find it annoys your climbing partner though?  Does with me, they never get used to it. 

This  has become my favourite  tread by far.

I wanted to get in to that last year, but the staff at the zoo kept getting upset with me when I tried to borrow their lion…

It is, in fact I think it is what speeding is classed as because the road speed limits are only applicable to motorised vehicles.

Wilde Oscaring?

A number of irresponsible BBQers on the moorlands have invented Wild Firing...

...or is that when your boss takes you outside and sacks you !?

Actually, Wild Wanking was invented by Gene Wilder in the film Willy Wanker!!!!!!!!

and on that hilarious note, I will get my lunch. 

The famous King Ludwig II of Bavaria - builder of Schloss Neuschwanstein, important patron of Wagner, of widely researched undefinable sexuality and commonly referred to as "the mad" - is probably the best example of a Wild Bi King. 

Believe it or not I have just returned from a gravel, bike packing micro adventure. Or a cycle tour if you prefer.

Talking of Vikings, worth mentioning England’s Viking King ‘Cnut the Great’.  Rumour has it folk called him The Great Cnut, coz it was funnier. I’ve heard his dad was called Tawt, his mum Cokc.  

And whilst most Viking’s loved a bit of Wild Wanking, one of their famous leaders found it hard (or soft, depending on your view): ‘Ivan the Boneless’.

He really existed.  They had great names back in them days. 

Staring at a broken pane in our greenhouse. I am pretty sure that I recall a "wild bouldering" guide in recent years. 

A long walk with an uncomfortable rucksack for 5 moves whilst staring at Esk Buttress. 

Remember, you mustn't use a bouldering mat, you need to buy the specific wild mat, use the wild chalk,wear the wild shoes. 

Yea, even unto the wild beanie*. So sayeth the marketing man.

* Not to be confused with the wild bean cafe which is, sadly, a thing.

I think we did a bit of wild firing with 25 pounders on the Warcop and Otterburn ranges in the mid 70s!   Radar fuzed airburst iirc.

If Lou Reed was still about he could have brought out a guidebook of his favourite hikes: Taking a Walk on the Wild Side.

Cnut The Great started a company making gear like tents and other stuff for this type of thing: Wild Cnutry I believe it was called

That's them... based in Scnuthorpe I think.

Edit: didn't they invent curved cnuts? 

Rumour has it that Wilde KIMM lent her name to a once famous Mountain Marathon. It was as wild as f*ck back in the day, people bingeing on mint cake and stuffing red socks in their mouths to deaden the sounds of pain and pleasure.  

Correct. Cnut the Great seat sail from some place in Norway and landed in Scnuthorpe - the sea was much farther in-land back then.  Rumour has it he was in the band Primal Scream and wrote ‘Get Your Rocks Off’, and then invented the now famous wired cnut. 

Edit: The word ‘Thorpe’ in Old Norse actually means ‘soon to be farther from the sea’, that’s why he named it. They were more cleverer than folk think. 

I was reading a book by the lovable racist historian Chris Sharma or whatever he’s called. He describes how;

‘....and after inventing the curved cnut, the First Viking King of England ‘Cnut the Great’ celebrated by sacrificing a mammoth (cows hadn’t been invented) by slitting it’s throat and draining it’s blood.  That’s why when he died he went to Valhalal.......’

go green - Wild Re-cycling

Well I have come back from a few days of wild walking in Northumberland and now that I am back in London I went for an edgy urban walk through Peckham the other evening, and did some urban cycling as well!

I think you're on to something there. Right now Urban Swimming is certainly a more risky idea than Wild Swimming.

What about being an urban backwoodsman?

And for an extra £50 it comes with the essential wild no shirt. 

Yes, but 'gravel bikes'; aaarghhhh!

It would be a bit of a mouthful to say "early 90s mountain bike with drop bars" and might not persuade people to spend that extra thousand.

I saw one with an upgrade to flat bars. Not seen one with Purple and Green paint job.

Who has never heard of Ivar the Boneless?