hike

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English

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Etymology

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”). More at hick.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /haɪk/
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  • Rhymes: -aɪk

Noun

hike (plural hikes)

  1. A long walk, usually for pleasure or exercise.
    • 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:
      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.
    • 1992, Allen Mitchell, California Parks Access: A Complete Guide to the State and National Parks for Visitors with Limited Mobility, page 179:
      From here, you can pick up the asphalt bike path and take a hike across the meadow.
    • 2002, Doug Gelbert, The 55 Best Places to Hike with Your Dog in the Philadelphia Region, page 98:
      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.
    • 2015, Bubba Suess, Hiking California's Wine Country: A Guide to the Area's Greatest Hikes, page 166:
      The hike through the city of Napa's Alston Park is a great introduction to the Napa Valley.
    • 2019, Joe Baur, Best Hikes Cleveland: The Greatest Views, Wildlife, and Forest Strolls, page 75:
      You'll run into Powers Road and will hike on the sidewalks of Bedford across some train tracks and onto Broadway Avenue.
  2. An abrupt increase.
    Antonyms: cut (used in same context), decrease
    The tenants were not happy with the rent hike.
    • 2021 October 20, “Network News: How do operators buy electricity?”, in RAIL, number 942, page 7:
      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).
    • 2022 June 15, Dominic Rushe, “Federal Reserve announces biggest interest rate hike since 1994”, in The Guardian‎:
      With soaring inflation and the shadow of recession hanging over the United States, the Federal Reserve announced a 0.75 percentage-point increase in interest rates on Wednesday – the largest hike since 1994.
  3. (American football) The snap of the ball to start a play.
  4. A sharp upward tug to raise something.
    • 2016, Erik Schubach, The Hollow:
      She gave a cute hike of her skirt as she spun and almost sauntered down the stairs.

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Verb

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

  1. To take a long walk for pleasure or exercise.
    Don't forget to bring the map when we go hiking tomorrow.
  2. To unfairly or suddenly raise a price.
  3. (American football) To snap the ball to start a play.
  4. (nautical) To lean out to the windward side of a sailboat in order to counterbalance the effects of the wind on the sails.
  5. To pull up or tug upwards sharply.
    She hiked her skirt up.
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Interjection

hike

  1. Let's go; get moving. A command to a dog sled team, given by a musher.

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Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin hīc.

Pronunciation

Adverb

hike

  1. here, in this place

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Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

hike (present tense hiker, past tense hika or hiket, past participle hika or hiket)

  1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by hige

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

After Danish hige.

Verb

hike (present tense hikar, past tense hika, past participle hika, passive infinitive hikast, present participle hikande, imperative hike/hik)

  1. to yearn

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