Definition of "hike"

hike

/haɪk/

noun
plural hikes
1. A long walk, usually for pleasure or exercise.
  Quotations
  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.
  1904, P.M. Silloway, “Extracts from Some Montana Note-books, 1904”, in Bulletin of the Cooper Ornithological Club, volumes 1-6, Cooper Ornithological Club, page 149
  From here, you can pick up the asphalt bike path and take a hike across the meadow.
  1992, Allen Mitchell, California Parks Access: A Complete Guide to the State and National Parks for Visitors with Limited Mobility, page 179
  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.
  2002, Doug Gelbert, The 55 Best Places to Hike with Your Dog in the Philadelphia Region, page 98
  The hike through the city of Napa's Alston Park is a great introduction to the Napa Valley.
  2015, Bubba Suess, Hiking California's Wine Country: A Guide to the Area's Greatest Hikes, page 166
  You'll run into Powers Road and will hike on the sidewalks of Bedford across some train tracks and onto Broadway Avenue.
  2019, Joe Baur, Best Hikes Cleveland: The Greatest Views, Wildlife, and Forest Strolls, page 75
2. An abrupt increase.
  Quotations
  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).
  2021 October 20, “Network News: How do operators buy electricity?”, in RAIL, number 942, page 7
  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.
  2022 June 15, Dominic Rushe, “Federal Reserve announces biggest interest rate hike since 1994”, in The Guardian‎
3. (American football) The snap of the ball to start a play.
4. A sharp upward tug to raise something.
  Quotations
  She gave a cute hike of her skirt as she spun and almost sauntered down the stairs.
  2016, Erik Schubach, The Hollow
verb
third-person singular simple present hikes, present participle hiking, simple past and past participle hiked
1. To take a long walk for pleasure or exercise.
2. To unfairly or suddenly raise a price.
3. (American football) To snap the ball to start a play.
4. (nautical) To lean out to the windward side of a sailboat in order to counterbalance the effects of the wind on the sails.
5. To pull up or tug upwards sharply.
interjection
1. Let's go; get moving. A command to a dog sled team, given by a musher.

Definition of "hike"

hike

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