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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
hike
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
walking/hiking boots
▪ In the mountains you’ll need some strong walking boots.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
long
▪ The long hike back seemed endless.
▪ They explored the outer reaches of the farm and took long hikes up Talcott Mountain.
▪ Food never tastes so good as it does after a long day's hike.
▪ He lifts weights, enjoys gardening and takes long hikes in the hills and at the beach.
▪ We're about to begin the long hike out to the rim.
▪ They had time for boat trips, excursions, long hikes.
▪ Hilary's away for the day - gone on a long hike to tune himself up, as he put it.
▪ They and their friends would take long cross-country hikes in and around Germantown.
■ NOUN
price
▪ Councillors are angry that the police authority did not inform them earlier of the massive price hike.
▪ Lininger believes the four incumbents were using the water price hike to slow growth.
▪ The oil price hike in 1973 turned Nabru into a boom town.
▪ Businesses too can not perform well if they must worry about unexpected price hikes.
▪ The price hike means larger profits, and a guarantee of demand for their recorders.
▪ The oil industry is still accommodating itself to its new size following the 1979 price hike.
▪ Sun apparently wants to move its base to Sparcstation 10s and Tsunamis and the price hike threat should help clear out inventory.
tax
▪ Therefore, it follows, renters lack any incentive to vote against tax hikes and the vulnerable property owners need special protection.
▪ Dole himself voted for tax hikes in 1982 and 1990 to reduce the deficit.
▪ The foundation said the tax hike cost the average family $ 2, 600 in higher taxes and lower earnings.
▪ With a change in the inflation index, those two taxpayers are treated precisely the same: They get a tax hike.
wage
▪ Employers agreed to pay on December 1st nearly the full wage hike they promised to give on April 1st.
▪ In the process, they even shaped the agenda, putting a minimum wage hike high on the national table.
■ VERB
take
▪ Systems topple, statues walk, long-serving political incumbents take a hike in a huge global shake-up.
▪ We were taken on nature hikes and told stories as we sat by campfires.
▪ Let the Pyramid Pooper take a hike just this once, eh? 0196.
▪ They explored the outer reaches of the farm and took long hikes up Talcott Mountain.
▪ So the question of her taking a five-mile hike across what in parts was sometimes rough terrain would never have occurred.
▪ One hot night, four Lundbergs took a hike, aroused by thunder and lightning, aroused but not awakened.
▪ If you're feeling brave you can swim in chilly crystal-clear lakes or take a hike in the mountains.
▪ Under the light of Lady Moon, I take a midnight hike.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Big gasoline hikes are expected in April.
▪ It was a bright, warm fall weekend, perfect for a hike in the hills.
▪ Opponents argued the sales-tax hike was unfair.
▪ Pilots will get an 11% pay hike over four years.
▪ The hike back was through the first real jungle I had ever been in.
▪ They set off on a 10 mile hike across the island.
▪ Trade Unions are proposing a hike in the minimum wage.
▪ We went on lots of great hikes.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Gilts improved a quarter as fears of another hike in interest rates receded.
▪ I do this in part because it is such an invigorating hike, but it is also a pilgrimage.
▪ If the hike, canoe journey or horseback trek were too arduous, there would be few takers.
▪ In addition to simple rage over the hike in water bills, other issues fueled the recall movement.
▪ Shareholders get a 4.5% dividend hike to 6.95p.
▪ That is a hefty hike when the rest of government is living under what amounts to a freeze.
▪ They explored the outer reaches of the farm and took long hikes up Talcott Mountain.
II.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
mountain
▪ I hiked mountains in Colorado with them.
▪ One last hike to a mountain top?
▪ Another about a monk hiking a mountain.
price
▪ In a bizarre twist, the continuing rise in fuel taxes could force the petrol companies themselves to hike prices further.
▪ What am I going to do, hike the price of the books on my three-for-a-buck table?
▪ This July for example the government hiked up the price of milk by over 40 percent.
trail
▪ They hiked obscure trails into the hills.
▪ Griffith Park is replete with hiking trails, and Mount Hollywood is excellent for plotting future treks.
▪ We also stopped to hike on a primitive trail, up and over a short ridge to a small, isolated lake.
▪ But the 80 acres of land surrounding the glass-and-granite manse are laced with hiking trails open to the public.
▪ There also are countless hiking trails near the lake and in the surrounding mountains.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I've hiked the canyon four times.
▪ Patricia likes doing active things like canoeing, hiking, and horse-riding.
▪ The President wants to hike spending for foreign aid.
▪ We're going hiking in Scotland this summer.
▪ We're going to hike to the top of that hill over there.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ I hiked across valleys so flat and wide it sometimes felt that I was walking on the spot.
▪ Pretending to be on a stroll, she hiked up to the car park.
▪ Tired from hiking, we checked in, turned on the television and ordered a pizza.
▪ We arrive exhausted, haul in our rucsacs, check in again and hike back along the corridor to the airport.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hike

Hike \Hike\, n.

  1. The act of hiking.

  2. A long walk usually for exercise or pleasure or exercise; a tramp; a march. [WordNet sense 1]

    With every hike there's a few laid out with their hands crossed.
    --Scribner's Mag.

  3. an increase in cost, rate, etc.; as, there was a dramatic hike in gasoline prices; a hike in the interest rates.

    Syn: rise, boost.

  4. Hence: the amount a salary is increased; as, he got a wage hike. [WordNet sense 3]

    Syn: raise, rise.

Hike

Hike \Hike\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hiked; p. pr. & vb. n. Hiking.] [Cf. Hitch.]

  1. To move with a swing, toss, throw, jerk, or the like.

  2. To raise with a quick movement.

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

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

Hike

Hike \Hike\, v. i.

  1. 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.''
    --Kipling.

    It's hike, hike, hike (march) till you stick in the mud, and then you hike back again a little slower than you went.
    --Scribner's Mag.

  2. to take a long walk, especially for pleasure or exercise.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
hike

1809, hyke "to walk vigorously," an English dialectal word of unknown origin. A yike from 1736 answers to the sense.\n\nHIKE, v. to go away. It is generally used in a contemptuous sense. Ex. "Come, hike," i.e. take yourself off; begone.

[Rev. Robert Forby, "The Vocabulary of East Anglia," London, 1830]

\nSense of "pull up" (as pants) first recorded 1873 in American English, and may be a variant of hitch; extended sense of "raise" (as wages) is 1867. Related: Hiked; hiking. The noun is from 1865.
Wiktionary
hike

n. 1 A long walk. 2 An abrupt increase. 3 (context American football English) The snap of the ball to start a play. 4 A command to a dog sled team, given by a musher vb. 1 To take a long walk for pleasure or exercise. 2 To unfairly or suddenly raise a price. 3 (context American football English) To snap the ball to start a play. 4 (context nautical English) 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.

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WordNet
hike

  1. n. a long walk usually for exercise or pleasure [syn: tramp]

  2. an increase in cost; "they asked for a 10% rise in rates" [syn: rise, boost, cost increase]

  3. the amount a salary is increased; "he got a 3% raise"; "he got a wage hike" [syn: raise, rise, wage hike, wage increase, salary increase]

hike

  1. v. increase; "The landlord hiked up the rents" [syn: hike up, boost]

  2. walk a long way, as for pleasure or physical exercise; "We were hiking in Colorado"; "hike the Rockies"

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Wikipedia
Hike

Hike may refer to:

  • Hiking, walking lengthy distances in the countryside or wilderness
  • Hiking (sailing), moving a sailor's body weight as far to windward (upwind) as possible, in order to counteract the force of the wind pushing sideways against the boat's sails
  • Alternative spelling for Heka (god), an Egyptian god
  • Hike (American football), another word for "snap"
  • Hike (dog mushing), a command to a dog team
  • Hike Messenger, a messaging application

Usage examples of "hike".

Marilee ruined her chicken dish and Axel rescued her with a steak barbeque that was so successful, it made her pout and threaten to lead all his fishing and hiking expeditions.

He followed at a discreet distance as Syra, Roth and Beel hiked across open prairie land with backpacks on their backs.

They compromised on a daytime hike in which Bunion would trail and not interfere if Ben was not threatened.

The wall presented a barrier that ran parallel to the stream, but as Ayla hiked along its base back toward the cave, the sheer drop angled up in a steep but climbable grade.

I asked Dod about it, and he said he normally parked there or on other roads and hiked the couple miles distance, or greater, depending on his last known location of Ha-Ta.

But as she hesitated, Emo hiked up his kilt, reached into his sling, and directed a stream of urine practically at her feet.

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If you want, Ill take a hike and of Liannes hands wrapped around Kyles wrist.

Instead, she was trapped inside a long-sleeved, long-skirted sack, wound inside yards of lamba, and assigned to a thirty-mile hike.

In the liftless air of night all the hunters hiked on the ground, guarding the guilders and helping to carry their tools and belongings.

A kindly and deferential sort of fellow, Mengle could talk for perhaps four days solid, with interest, about any aspect of hiking equipment.

Poppy braced in the doorway, stammering that Moll had hiked into the storm, seeking herbs.

Hell no, the last time he had really camped out was that spring when he got his draft notice and decided to enlist in the Marines, and he and Orval hiked into the hills for the first weekend it was warm enough.

She breathed in, releasing the tension of the three-hour hike with Posie and Meng.

Bill turned back to wave, but his would-be rescuee, already hiking briskly back in the direction of her camp, did not see, much less return, the gesture.