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A traveler who makes a long arduous journey (as hiking through mountainous country)
Answer for the clue "A traveler who makes a long arduous journey (as hiking through mountainous country) ", 7 letters:
trekker
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Word definitions for trekker in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a traveler who makes a long arduous journey (as hiking through mountainous country)
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"one who treks," 1851, agent noun from trek (v.).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 One who treks; thus, a hiker 2 (context UK, World War II English) A person who spent the night in a rural area, rather than his home, during bombing raids
Usage examples of trekker.
According to the ad, which is unusually copy-heavy, short on men with smooth, sculpted chests, Trekker is the only cologne approved for camping use by the National Park Service.
It occurs to me, as I peel back the scented strip to whiff Trekker, that these magazine ads, scintillating as they are, would drive a bear insane.
Trail RunDown, I tear the Trekker ad out and take it to my own bear-calling closet.
Kenneka Road Trekker Supreme, brand new, judging by the paper license plate in the rear window, backed into their driveway and aimed at the great outdoors like a giant fun-seeking missile.
I do, however, remember yanking the wheel hard to the right, sending the Trekker on a collision course with the Dynacruiser.
I knew, the Trekker was on the right shoulder, half off the road and facing in a forty-five degree angle back the way we had come.
In real life, she is a theater buff, Trekker, and rookie freelance writer.
She enjoys landscaping, her AOL True Trekker friends, performing in the Yakima Symphony Chorus, and is a 4-H volunteer.
Sterl noted, as the spell of the wilderness worked upon the minds of the trekkers, that the attendance gradually decreased.
Through this bush, the endless monotony of which wore so strangely on the trekkers that desert country would have been welcome, they never made an average of five miles a day.
Two miles above the first camp the trekkers could have crossed without wetting their feet.
The pitching of this camp registered for the trekkers an immense relief and joy.
In these hours, the ever-increasing flies made existence well-nigh unbearable and all the trekkers kept under cover of tents and mosquito nets.
Darkness fell upon silent trekkers, some going to their beds and others about their jobs, and all with spirits bowed but not broken.
The trekkers ate, and tried to be oblivious of the abo signals, the uncanny bats, the howls of the dingoes and the unseen menace that hovered over this somber camp.