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Absolutely. If the weather isn't nice, I will even walk around in the office.
Possibly related to "showerthoughts", in that removal of stimuli allows for latent realizations to surface.
Walking, showering, sleeping, and riding a bike are great ways to debug code. It's very cool to go to sleep and wake up knowing what the solution to the problem is. The key for incubation for me is to make sure my brain can churn without distractions (that means no listening to podcasts, music, etc while performing said action).
It's the daydreaming/mind-wandering state that occurs when you're not focused on an external task. With all the stimuli of the modern world, I feel like we're being starved of crucial DMN time if we don't engineer conditions like the ones you describe.
Unless you like me, like to walk fast so you go back home ungrier than never because: 1. people walking like turtle in front of you 2. people on phone not looking at where they go 3. both
https://www.inferterra.com/the-new-workspace-a-first-princip...
Kant was so famous for taking a daily walk at precisely 3:30 p.m. that the residents of Königsberg could set their clocks by it.
There is even a latin phrase for it: solvitur ambulando. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solvitur_ambulando