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Hiking   /hˈaɪkɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Hike  v. t.  (past & past part. hiked; pres. part. hiking)  
1.
To move with a swing, toss, throw, jerk, or the like. (Dial. or Colloq.)
2.
To raise with a quick movement.
3.
To raise (a price) quickly or significantly in a single step. "They hiked gasoline prices twenty cents in less than a week."
4.
(Football) To pass (the ball) from the center to the quarterback at the start of the play; to snap (the ball).


Hike  v. i.  
1.
To hike one's self; specif., to go with exertion or effort; to tramp; to march laboriously. (Dial. or Colloq.) "If you persist in heaving and hiking like this." "It's hike, hike, hike (march) till you stick in the mud, and then you hike back again a little slower than you went."
2.
To take a long walk, especially for pleasure or exercise.





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"Hiking" Quotes from Famous Books



... answered the other. "Besides, I might not get it straight. Sometime, though, if you want me to, I'll pass on what I know. But to-day I guess we ought to be hiking back. It is close onto the time the pack is fed and I may have them yelping at my throat if ...
— Walter and the Wireless • Sara Ware Bassett
... were out hiking and were very thirsty. They came to a deserted farm and found a deep well; it was about 40 feet down to the water. They had no pump, but there was a piece of hose about 50 feet long. One boy suggested that ...
— Common Science • Carleton W. Washburne
... "We have pictures of Temple Camp where we go in the summer, and they show scouts doing all kinds of things—rowing and cooking and hiking and ...
— Roy Blakeley's Camp on Wheels • Percy Keese Fitzhugh
... yer yet, Pete, on that bounding buck of a nigger, and him a-hiking through the jungle and a-yelling like a ...
— Frontier Boys on the Coast - or in the Pirate's Power • Capt. Wyn Roosevelt
... few mornings was at 8 o'clock. Thursday, November 28th, was an off day for the outfit, except those on K. P., who got an extra job in preparing a battery Thanksgiving spread. The day was spent by the idle mostly in hiking over the roads and visiting some of the nearby villages where the other units of the regiment were quartered. Regimental Headquarters, Headquarters Company, Supply Company, Battery C, and the Medical detachment were at Andelot, about four kilos from Blancheville. The 2nd Battalion Hqrs. and ...
— The Delta of the Triple Elevens - The History of Battery D, 311th Field Artillery US Army, - American Expeditionary Forces • William Elmer Bachman


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