barefooter

English

Etymology

From barefoot +‎ -er.

Noun

barefooter (plural barefooters)

  1. One who takes part in water skiing without wearing water skis.
    • 1974, Kenneth Stephens, Waterskiing, page 91:
      A barefooter can perform such tricks as one-foot barefoot, tumble turns, crossing wakes, and toehold barefoot. Wake crossing is achieved in much the same fashion as it is on two skis.
    • 2000, Walter G. Oleksy, Barefoot waterskiing, page 14:
      In 1950, a waterskiing competition in Florida included a barefoot waterskiing event. The barefooter who could barefoot water-ski for the longest time won this event. Barefooters began performing tricks such as tumbleturns and skiing backward in the early 1960s.
  2. A person who chooses not to wear shoes or socks.
    • 1999 May 25, “The right to bare feet”, in Minden Times, page 7:
      A Calgarian barefooter by the name of Jay Winkler doesn’t even let Canadian winters slow him down. He says he particularly loves bare-hoofing along a high mountain trail around Emerald Lake, B.C.
    • 2006 May 12, “Feel the Earth with bare feet”, in Beijing Today, page 20:
      Julia Hill is a barefooter extraordinaire. She spent two years living in a California redwood in a crusade to protect the state’s last remaining oldgrowth redwood forest […] She always climbed the tree, which she named Luna, barefoot, even in the dead of winter, saying that she “had to have the connection.”
    • 2016 June 16, Paul Neevel, “Happening People”, in Eugene Weekly, page 11:
      Within three weeks of beginning her paper route, Wise had become a 24/7 barefooter, and she no longer had pain in her knees. […] Wise became a barefooting activist after she was told by a manager at Market of Choice that she couldn’t be in the store without shoes.
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