off-trail travel through brush where no cleared path exists and hikers have to force their way through the branches. Bushwhacking: Making ones way through bushes or undergrowth without the aid of a formal trail. Found on http://camposaur.com/camping-glossary/
• (n.) Traveling, or working a way, through bushes; pulling by the bushes, as in hauling a boat along the bushy margin of a stream. • (n.) The crimes or warfare of bushwhackers. Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/bushwhacking/
Bush'whack`ing noun 1. Traveling, or working a way, through bushes; pulling by the bushes, as in hauling a boat along the bushy margin of a stream. [ U.S.] T. Flint. 2. The crimes or warfare of bushwhackers. [ U.S.] Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/B/117