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trail head

trail head is the alternative form of trailhead.

Meaning of trailhead

Noun

trailhead (plural trailheads)

  1. The beginning of a trail, often specifically a hiking trail.
    • Take a bus or a cab to the trailhead, and walk a couple of hours to the magnificent, cow-inhabited Tai Long Wan beach.2010 January 22, Krista Mahr, “Authentic Asian Experiences (Round II): See Hong Kong's Greener Side”, in Time, retrieved 13 Aug 2016
  2. The initial clue that leads to an alternate reality game.
    • The trailhead can be exposed to potential gamers through social network services, websites, emails, or sometimes non-electronic media.2017, Sangkyun Kim, Kibong Song, Barbara Lockee, John Burton, Gamification in Learning and Education, Springer, →ISBN, page 27
    Synonyms:
    rabbit hole

Forms of trail head

pluraltrail heads

Questions about trail head

What is trail head the alternative form of?
Trail head is the alternative form of trailhead.

Words near trail head in the dictionary

  1. trail braking
  2. trail camera
  3. trail cameras
  4. trail hand
  5. trail hands
  6. trail head
  7. trail heads
  8. trail hitter
  9. trail hitters
  10. trail hunt
  11. trail hunted

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Adapted from Wiktionary: trail head (page history and authors); trailhead (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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