# hike
## English
### 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: /haɪk/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -aɪk

### Noun

hike (plural hikes)
* A long walk, usually for pleasure or exercise. [from c. 1900]
** 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.
* An abrupt increase.
    Antonyms: cut (used in same context), decrease
    The tenants were not happy with the rent hike.
** 1976 December 25, Alan Bowne, “Lesbians Rising Makes an Impact at Hunter”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 26, page 10:It was on this campus last winter that gay people stood in the vanguard of protests against a tuition hike proposed and passed during the city's fiscal crisis.
** 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.
* (American football) The snap of the ball to start a play.
* 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.

#### Derived terms

* tax hike

#### Translations
### Verb

hike (third-person singular simple present hikes, present participle hiking, simple past and past participle hiked)
* To take a long walk for pleasure or exercise.
    Don't forget to bring the map when we go hiking tomorrow.
* To unfairly or suddenly raise a price.
* (American football) To snap the ball to start a play.
* (nautical) To lean out to the windward side of a sailboat in order to counterbalance the effects of the wind on the sails.
* To pull up or tug upwards sharply.
    She hiked her skirt up.

#### Synonyms

* (to take a long walk): tramp
* (to lean to the windward side): lean out, sit out

#### Derived terms

* hike out
* hiker
* hike the Appalachian Trail
* hike up
* hiking
* hitch-hike
* outhike
* thru-hike

#### Translations
### Interjection

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

#### See also

* hitchhike
* hitchhiker
* take a hike

### References

* “hike”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
* “hike”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

## Ido
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin hīc.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈhikɛ/

### Adverb

hike
* here, in this place

#### Derived terms

* ad exter hike (“out of here! away with you!”)
* for hike (“far distant from here”)
* hika, hikala (“here, this”)
* hike apude (“near here”)
* hike interne (“here within”)
* hike ube (“here where”)
* til hike (“(un)to here”)
* tra hike (“through here, this way”)
* venez adhike (“come here, hither”)

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Verb

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

### See also

* hige (Bokmål)

### References

* “hike” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.