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Although surface electromyography (sEMG) signals have been combined with inputs from other sensors to detect walking intention, no study has yet classified walking environments using sEMG only. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to classify the current walking environment based on the entire sEMG profile gathered from selected muscles in the lower extremities. The muscle activations of selected muscles in the lower extremities were measured in 27 participants while they walked over flat-ground, upstairs, downstairs, uphill, and downhill. An artificial neural network (ANN) was employed to classify these walking environments using the entire sEMG profile recorded for all muscles during the stance phase. The result shows that the ANN was able to classify the current walking environment with high accuracy of 96.3% when using activation from all muscles. When muscle activation from flexor\/extensor groups in the knee, ankle, and metatarsophalangeal joints were used individually to classify the environment, the triceps surae muscle activation showed the highest classification accuracy of 88.9%. 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