Definitions
a long walk usually for exercise or pleasure
Word origin
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”).
Used in a sentence
“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.”
“From here, you can pick up the asphalt bike path and take a hike across the meadow.”
“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.”
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Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Trail trek”4 letters
02“Long walk”4 letters
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