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trek

/tɹɛk/

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trek noun: a journey by ox wagon.

Noun

trek (plural treks)

  1. (South Africa) A journey by ox wagon.
  2. (South Africa) The Boer migration of 1835–1837.
  3. A slow or difficult journey.
    • We're planning a trek up Kilimanjaro.
    • Early the next morning I set off on the long and hazardous trek through jungles and hills into Assam, and regretfully said "good-bye" to the gallant little Burma Railways, which had functioned to the last and played a big part in evacuating many thousands of refugees and wounded soldiers in the...1943 November and December, G. T. Porter, “The Lines Behind the Lines in Burma”, in Railway Magazine, page 327
  4. A long walk.
    • I would drive to the shops from here; you can walk, but it's quite a trek.
    Synonyms:
    slog, schlep

Verb

trek (third-person singular simple present treks, present participle trekking, simple past and past participle trekked)

  1. (intransitive) To make a slow or arduous journey.
    • Before that they had been a good deal on the move, trekking about after the white man, who was one of those rolling stones that keep going round after a soft job.1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Beach of Falesá
  2. (intransitive) To journey on foot, especially to hike through mountainous areas.
    Synonyms:
    tramp
  3. (South Africa) To travel by ox wagon.
  4. (Nigeria) To travel by walking.

Proper noun capitalized: Trek

Trek

  1. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of Star Trek.
    • Spock’s half-brother Cybok virtually brought Kirk and McCoy to their knees with a simple imposing of their own self-reflection. […] it gave the writers of Trek a generic bad guy that is best described as a eccentric-lunatic genius on a personal quest which consequently affects the universe on a...1994 November 22, James A. Kimble, “Part V Revisited in Star Trek Generations”, in The Connector, volume XXII, number 11, Lowell, Mass.: University of Massachusetts Lowell, page 15, column 1

Adjective capitalized: Trek

Trek (comparative more Trek, superlative most Trek)

  1. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of Star Trek.

trek meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Bengali and Telugu

trek in Hindi

ट्रेक

trek in Marathi

ट्रेक

trek in Bengali

ট্রেক

trek in Telugu

ట్రెక్, ట్రెక్కింగ్ చేయడానికి, ట్రెక్కింగ్ చెయ్యడానికి
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trek in Malayalam
ട്രെക്കിംഗ് ചെയ്യാൻ, ട്രെക്കിങ്ങിലേക്ക്
trek in Kannada
ಚಾರಣ ಮಾಡಲು, ಟ್ರೆಕ್ಕಿಂಗ್ ಮಾಡಲು
trek in Punjabi
ਟ੍ਰੇਕ
trek in Nepali
ट्रेकिङ गर्न

Examples of trek in a sentence

  • The first trek to the summit of Mount Everest was a stunning exploit.
  • After a long, arduous trek, we were overjoyed to catch sight of our destination at last.
  • Be very careful (while) trekking through the jungle.

All 38 example sentences with trek

Synonyms of trek

Forms of trek

Noun
pluraltreks
alternative form (archaic)treck
Verb
third-person singular presenttreks
present participletrekking
past participletrekked
pasttrekked
Adjective
comparativemore Trek
superlativemost Trek

Plural of trek: treks

Origin of trek

From Afrikaans trek, from Dutch trekken, from Middle Dutch trekken (weak verb) and trēken (“to trek, place, bring, move”, strong verb), from Old Dutch *trekkan, *trekan, from Proto-West Germanic *trekan, from Proto-Germanic *trekaną, *trakjaną (“to drag, haul, scrape, pull”), from Proto-Indo-European *dreg- (“to drag, scrape”).

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Phrases with trek

Words that rhyme with trek

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Questions about trek

What does trek mean?
Trek means a journey by ox wagon.
What is trek in Hindi?
Trek in Hindi is ट्रेक. See Trek meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is trek?
Trek can be a noun, a verb, a proper noun or an adjective.
How do you pronounce trek?
Trek is pronounced /tɹɛk/.
What is the plural of trek?
The plural of trek is treks.

Words near trek in the dictionary

  1. treiskaidekaphobia
  2. Treisman
  3. Trejo
  4. Trejos
  5. Trejoses
  6. trek
  7. trekboer
  8. trekboers
  9. Trekcon
  10. Trekcons
  11. Trekdom

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Adapted from Wiktionary: trek (page history and authors); Trek (page history and authors); trek (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); trek (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); trek (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); trek (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); trek (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); trek (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); trek (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); trek (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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