hike
- noun
- /haɪk/
- I love going for a hike in the mountains during the fall to enjoy the colorful leaves.
- a long hike
- a trail hike
- a day hike
We had quite a hike to our next ghostly location.
- We had quite a hike to our next ghostly location.
- And so I went on a hike with my boy and my youngest boy, Shep.
- I like to talk about nature walks, hikes.
- I have a go rucksack for an hour hike.
- So I'm super excited after this hike.
- By a walk I mean something between a stroll and a hike.
- And what's been really lovely is calling him up and being like, hey, I'm doing a hike this weekend.
- But yeah, hike, I mean, hikes are probably the best, I think.
Examples
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So what happened was five years ago, I went for a hike with Jim, a mountain hike.
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We're all going for a hike up to the waterfall.
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It's a longer hike than it looks.
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It's quite a hike and might be the only time I get you all to myself.
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We are about two miles in to our nine mile hike towards Missed Falls.
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This afternoon we have a three hour hike to Namche.
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The village was about an hour's hike along a muddy road and across a stream.
Fiction book (1999) -
It's a four-day hike into the jungle.
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For us, it was a beautiful hike following mountain footpaths and streams.
Academic text (2006) -
It's a beautiful hike.
Synonyms
An act of moving on foot for exercise, pleasure, or travel
A walk in the countryside for pleasure with no fixed route
A long walk taken for exercise or enjoyment
A walk that people take for pleasure, exercise, or an organized event
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Etymology
Hike. The word hike for a long walk likely grew from an old idea of 'pulling up' or moving quickly, the same idea you see in the phrase hike up. So think of 'hiking up' a hill or your boots — that image helps explain why hike means a long, often uphill, walk.