Skip to main content
Glite Dictionary
hiking gear

hiking gear

2.6
Clothes and tools you need for long walks in hills or mountains
  • noun
  • /ˈhaɪkɪŋ ɡɪr/
translation icon : equipo de senderismo
  • The store has a wide selection of hiking gear, including boots, backpacks, and maps.
  • other types of hiking gear

Examples

  • Wearing proper hiking gear is essential for staying safe and comfortable on the trail.

  • The gringos had serious hiking gear and were buying purified water, and Rafael Hinojosa y Obregon was looking at the newspapers there; the athletic young

    Fiction book (2000)

  • Blueprints and sheafs of single-spaced manuscript pages stuffed his closet, but his single source of income had been as a salesman at a hiking gear store.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • She packed her hiking gear before heading to the mountains for the weekend.

How Specialized

hiking gear
2.6

Surface Forms

hiking gear singular
hiking gears plural

Morphology

hiking + gear

The meaning 'the equipment and clothing needed for hiking' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'hiking' (the activity of walking outdoors) with 'gear' (items/equipment for an activity). This noun+noun compositional pattern is common and cross-linguistically regular, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE meaning.

Etymology

Hiking gear is a simple picture: hiking means walking in the hills and gear means the 'tools and clothes' you take. That's why it means 'equipment and clothing needed for hiking'.