hike
/haɪk/
hike noun: a long walk, usually for pleasure or exercise.
Noun
hike (plural hikes)
- A long walk, usually for pleasure or exercise.
- Well, if it gave him so much pleasure to find the nest, he is welcome to the eggs. I can hunt another grass tuft, lay another set, and rear my brood in peace while he goes "hiking" after eggs at Flathead.1904, P.M. Silloway, “Extracts from Some Montana Note-books, 1904”, in Bulletin of the Cooper Ornithological Club, volumes 1-6, Cooper Ornithological Club, page 149
- From here, you can pick up the asphalt bike path and take a hike across the meadow.1992, Allen Mitchell, California Parks Access: A Complete Guide to the State and National Parks for Visitors with Limited Mobility, page 179
- An abrupt increase.
- The tenants were not happy with the rent hike.
- It was on this campus last winter that gay people stood in the vanguard of protests against a tuition hike proposed and passed during the city's fiscal crisis.1976 December 25, Alan Bowne, “Lesbians Rising Makes an Impact at Hunter”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 26, page 10
- The snap of the ball to start a play.
- A sharp upward tug to raise something.
- She gave a cute hike of her skirt as she spun and almost sauntered down the stairs.2016, Erik Schubach, The Hollow
Verb
hike (third-person singular simple present hikes, present participle hiking, simple past and past participle hiked)
- To take a long walk (on something) for pleasure or exercise.
- Don't forget to bring the map when we go hiking tomorrow.
- When Dick Hudson hiked the trail between 1966 and 1970, he met so few hikers that he can still recall nearly all of them.1994, Larry Luxenberg, “Pioneer Thru-Hikers”, in Walking the Appalachian Trail, Stackpole Books, →ISBN, page 33
- Synonyms:
- tramp
- To unfairly or suddenly raise a price.
- To snap the ball to start a play.
- To lean out to the windward side of a sailboat in order to counterbalance the effects of the wind on the sails.
- Synonyms:
- lean out, sit out
- To pull up or tug upwards sharply.
- She hiked her skirt up.
Interjection
- Let's go; get moving. A command to a dog sled team, given by a musher.
hike meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
hike in Tamil
- நெடுந்தூர நடை, மலை ஏற்றம், உயர்வு
hike in Urdu
- اوپر اٹھانا
hike in Bengali
- পদযাত্রা করা, ভ্রমণে বের হওয়া, মূল্য বৃদ্ধি করা
hike in Malayalam
- കാൽനടയായുള്ള ദീർഘവിനോദസഞ്ചാരം, വിലവർദ്ധന, വിലക്കയറ്റം
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- hike in Kannada
- ಕಾಲ್ನಡಿಗೆ, ನಿಡುನಡಿಗೆ, ತಿರುಗಾಟ, ಬೆಲೆ ಏರಿಸು
- hike in Persian
- کوهنوردی
- hike in Vietnamese
- cuộc đi bộ đường dài, đi bộ đường dài
Examples of hike in a sentence
- The hike along the trolley line from Smedley to Thompson Park is a wild and wooly excursion that brings you across train tracks, through dry creek beds, past ferns and wild roses and more.2002, Doug Gelbert, The 55 Best Places to Hike with Your Dog in the Philadelphia Region, page 98:
- The hike through the city of Napa's Alston Park is a great introduction to the Napa Valley.2015, Bubba Suess, Hiking California's Wine Country: A Guide to the Area's Greatest Hikes, page 166:
- You'll run into Powers Road and will hike on the sidewalks of Bedford across some train tracks and onto Broadway Avenue.2019, Joe Baur, Best Hikes Cleveland: The Greatest Views, Wildlife, and Forest Strolls, page 75:
- Those who are part of the consortium are protected from the current energy price hikes because they were tied into a fixed rate deal set almost a year ago (and continuing into most of next year).2021 October 20, “Network News: How do operators buy electricity?”, in RAIL, number 942, page 7:
Synonyms of hike
Antonyms
Forms of hike
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | hikes |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | hikes |
| present participle | hiking |
| past participle | hiked |
| past | hiked |
Origin of hike
From English dialectal hyke (“to walk vigorously”), probably a Northern form of hitch, from Middle English hytchen, hichen, icchen (“to move, jerk, stir”). Cognate with Scots hyke (“to move with a jerk”), dialectal German hicken (“to hobble, walk with a limp”), Danish hinke (“to hop”).
Words formed from hike
Phrases with hike
Words that rhyme with hike
Questions about hike
- What does hike mean?
- Hike means a long walk, usually for pleasure or exercise.
- What is hike in Tamil?
- Hike in Tamil is நெடுந்தூர நடை, மலை ஏற்றம், உயர்வு. See Hike meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use hike in a sentence?
- The hike along the trolley line from Smedley to Thompson Park is a wild and wooly excursion that brings you across train tracks, through dry creek beds, past ferns and wild roses and more.
- What part of speech is hike?
- Hike can be a noun, a verb or an interjection.
- How do you pronounce hike?
- Hike is pronounced /haɪk/.
- What is the plural of hike?
- The plural of hike is hikes.
Words near hike in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: hike (page history and authors); hike (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); hike (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); hike (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); hike (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); hike (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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