hike
Part of speech: noun
verb
intj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: American-football
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hobbies
lifestyle
nautical
sports
transport
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”).
Inflected forms:
form: hikes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hikes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hiking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hiked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hiked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A long walk, usually for pleasure or exercise.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
The hike through the city of Napa's Alston Park is a great introduction to the Napa Valley.
You'll run into Powers Road and will hike on the sidewalks of Bedford across some train tracks and onto Broadway Avenue.
gloss: An abrupt increase.
pos: noun
examples: The tenants were not happy with the rent hike.
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.
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).
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.
gloss: The snap of the ball to start a play.
pos: noun
gloss: A sharp upward tug to raise something.
pos: noun
examples: She gave a cute hike of her skirt as she spun and almost sauntered down the stairs.
gloss: To take a long walk (on something) for pleasure or exercise.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: Don't forget to bring the map when we go hiking tomorrow.
When Dick Hudson hiked the trail between 1966 and 1970, he met so few hikers that he can still recall nearly all of them.
gloss: To unfairly or suddenly raise a price.
pos: verb
gloss: To snap the ball to start a play.
pos: verb
gloss: To lean out to the windward side of a sailboat in order to counterbalance the effects of the wind on the sails.
pos: verb
gloss: To pull up or tug upwards sharply.
pos: verb
examples: She hiked her skirt up.
gloss: Let's go; get moving. A command to a dog sled team, given by a musher.
pos: intj
Related words: backpack
Derived words: dayhike
hikeathon
tax hike
water hike
hikeable
hike out
hiker
hike the Appalachian Trail
hike up
hiking
hitch-hike
outhike
thru-hike
unhiked
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