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/hˈaɪkɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Hike v. t. (past & past part. hiked; pres. part. hiking)

To move with a swing, toss, throw, jerk, or the like. (Dial. or Colloq.)

To raise with a quick movement.

To raise (a price) quickly or significantly in a single step. "They hiked gasoline prices twenty cents in less than a week."

(Football) To pass (the ball) from the center to the quarterback at the start of the play; to snap (the ball).

Hike v. i.

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."

To take a long walk, especially for pleasure or exercise.

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Etymology of 'Hiking'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Hiking" Quotes from Famous Books

... Banks was in bed all but his whiskers and feet. He was making internal noises that would have had everybody in San Francisco hiking for the parks. A young man was standing by the bed holding a cup ...

— The Gentle Grafter • O. Henry

... 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