Meaning

A long walk, usually for pleasure or exercise..

Definitions by Sense

1. A long walk, usually for pleasure or exercise.
2. An abrupt increase.
3. (American football) The snap of the ball to start a play.
4. A sharp upward tug to raise something.
5. (ambitransitive) To take a long walk (on something) for pleasure or exercise.
6. To unfairly or suddenly raise a price.
7. (American football) To snap the ball to start a play.
8. (nautical) To lean out to the windward side of a sailboat in order to counterbalance the effects of the wind on the sails.

Example Sentences

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.

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).

Word Forms

• hikes
• hiking
• hiked

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Use hike when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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