Hiking

//ˈhaɪkɪŋ// noun, verb

noun, verb ·Moderate ·High school level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Walking in the countryside for pleasure or sport. uncountable, usually

    "To protect the glacier, officials have limited the number of visitors to 10,000 a day and have banned hiking on the ice."

  2. 2
    a long walk usually for exercise or pleasure wordnet
  3. 3
    The act by which something is hiked, or raised sharply. uncountable, usually

    "Like in previous years, Government policies with regard to restraining price hikings have been dealing with curtailing credit supplies and bank liquidities […]"

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of hike form-of, gerund, participle, present

Synonyms

All synonyms
additionadjunctaggrandizementamblingambulationampliation

Example

More examples

"Not really. I like hiking better than fishing."

Related phrases

hiking boothiking pole

More for "hiking"

SynonymsSentencesPronunciationTranslate

Next best steps

Find stronger synonymsSee usage examplesCheck pronunciationBrowse writing guides

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.