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thru-hiking

thru-hiking is the present participle and gerund of thru-hike.

Meaning of thru-hike

Verb

thru-hike (third-person singular simple present thru-hikes, present participle thru-hiking, simple past and past participle thru-hiked)

  1. to walk a long-distance trail end to end, in one unbroken trek
    • I've always wanted to thru-hike…2006, David Miller, AWOL on the Appalachian Trail, Wingspan Press, →ISBN, page 60

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Questions about thru-hiking

What is thru-hiking the present participle and gerund of?
Thru-hiking is the present participle and gerund of thru-hike.

Words near thru-hiking in the dictionary

  1. thru-hike
  2. thru-hiked
  3. thru-hiker
  4. thru-hikers
  5. thru-hikes
  6. thru-hiking
  7. thru-hole technology
  8. Thrudvang
  9. thrue
  10. thruff
  11. thruly

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Adapted from Wiktionary: thru-hiking (page history and authors); thru-hike (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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