hike
verb/haɪk/
/haɪk/
Verb Forms
Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they hike | /haɪk/ /haɪk/ |
| he / she / it hikes | /haɪks/ /haɪks/ |
| past simple hiked | /haɪkt/ /haɪkt/ |
| past participle hiked | /haɪkt/ /haɪkt/ |
| -ing form hiking | /ˈhaɪkɪŋ/ /ˈhaɪkɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive, transitive] to go for a long walk in the country, especially for pleasure
- You'll need some strong boots for hiking over rough country.
- We're planning to hike across the Brecon Beacons.
- hike something (North American English) I always wanted to hike the Rockies.
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- [intransitive] go hikingto spend time hiking for pleasure
- If the weather's fine, we'll go hiking this weekend.
- [transitive] hike something (up) to increase prices, taxes, etc. suddenly by large amounts
- The government hiked up the price of milk by over 40%.
Word Originearly 19th cent. (originally dialect, as a verb): of unknown origin.
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