"Walking the dog" is also a technique for retrieving a surface (top water) fishing lure.

Citizen Band (CB's) use "walk the dog"

Walking the dog is, first and foremost, the act of taking a pet dog on a walk as part of an exercise regimen. Other meanings or similar phrases:

Walk the dog[1] is a common yo-yo trick where the player does a sleeper and then allows this spinning yo-yo to roll along the ground as if it were a leashed animal.

Wag the Dog is the title of a 1997 film starring Robert DeNiro and Dustin Hoffman, about the creation of a fake war in order to divert public attention from a presidential sex scandal. The term has subsequently found its way into common political vernacular to describe similar situations. See Spin (public relations).

Walking the Dog is a song by Rufus Thomas. It has been covered by many artists, including The Rolling Stones and Aerosmith.

Walking the Dog musical piece by George Gershwin written for the film Shall We Dance (1937), and later published as "Promenade" in 1960