hike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /haɪk/
rhymes: -aɪk
Forms: form: hikes
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”).
Senses: examples: text: 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.
ref: 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:
text: From here, you can pick up the asphalt bike path and take a hike across the meadow.
ref: 1992, Allen Mitchell, California Parks Access: A Complete Guide to the State and National Parks for Visitors with Limited Mobility, page 179:
text: 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.
ref: 2002, Doug Gelbert, The 55 Best Places to Hike with Your Dog in the Philadelphia Region, page 98:
text: The hike through the city of Napa's Alston Park is a great introduction to the Napa Valley.
ref: 2015, Bubba Suess, Hiking California's Wine Country: A Guide to the Area's Greatest Hikes, page 166:
text: You'll run into Powers Road and will hike on the sidewalks of Bedford across some train tracks and onto Broadway Avenue.
ref: 2019, Joe Baur, Best Hikes Cleveland: The Greatest Views, Wildlife, and Forest Strolls, page 75:
glosses: A long walk, usually for pleasure or exercise.
examples: text: The tenants were not happy with the rent hike.
text: 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.
ref: 1976 December 25, Alan Bowne, “Lesbians Rising Makes an Impact at Hunter”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 26, page 10:
text: 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).
ref: 2021 October 20, “Network News: How do operators buy electricity?”, in RAIL, number 942, page 7:
text: 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.
ref: 2022 June 15, Dominic Rushe, “Federal Reserve announces biggest interest rate hike since 1994”, in The Guardian:
antonyms: cut
decrease
glosses: An abrupt increase.
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The snap of the ball to start a play.
examples: text: She gave a cute hike of her skirt as she spun and almost sauntered down the stairs.
ref: 2016, Erik Schubach, The Hollow:
glosses: A sharp upward tug to raise something.
Derived terms: dayhike
hikeathon
tax hike
water hike