Crossword clues for trekking
trekking
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Trek \Trek\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Trekked; p. pr. & vb. n. Trekking.] [Written also treck.] [D. trekken. See Track, n.] [South Africa]
To draw or haul a load, as oxen.
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To travel, esp. by ox wagon; to go from place to place; to migrate. [Chiefly South Africa]
One of the motives which induced the Boers of 1836 to trek out of the Colony.
--James Bryce.
Wiktionary
n. walking in the countryside for pleasure or sport. Usually meaning for a longer period of time than hiking. vb. (present participle of trek English)
WordNet
n. a journey by ox wagon (especially an organized migration by a group of settlers)
any long and difficult trip
v. journey on foot, especially in the mountains; "We spent the summer trekking in the foothills of the Himalayas"
make a long and difficult journey; "They trekked towards the North Pole with sleds and skis"
See trek
Usage examples of "trekking".
April and, trekking to the Church Square, proceeded to outspan there, as was usual in the Seventies.
Silastic Armorfiends of Striterax were engaged in one of their regular wars with the Strenuous Garfighters of Stug, and were not enjoying it as much as usual because it involved an awful lot of trekking through the Radiation Swamps of Cwulzenda, and across the Fire Mountains of Frazfraga, neither of which terrains they felt at home in.
When the time had been right they had left Bethabara and had been on the road since, trekking long distances despite the winter winds, as far as Mount Hermon in the land of Herod Philip II.
Her published dissertation on the family Bromeliaceae was backed up by years of fieldwork and countless hard-won miles trekking through the tropical forests of South America, and like all the naturalists who had gone before her, every mile had yielded a story of hardship and close calls.
Ethan Hughes, 24, Kate Cox, 25, and George Arnott, 39, were seized along with an American couple and two others while trekking in the Himalayan foothills near Sriniagar, the Kashmiri summer capital.
Jud had been accustomed to hearing reports about insidious characters while he had been trekking through the heart of Nazidom, helping to block off war criminals from flight to what they called their National Redoubt.
The car was crowded with a group of Trentonians trekking to New York City for the day.
They show Hresh glimpses of ragged survivors of the early cataclysms trekking across the frozen landscape, seeking places where they would be safe: caviandis, hjjks, even the People themselves, fleeing toward the cocoons where they will wait out the interminable eons of cold.
There used to be a kind of adventurism in the excitement they sought, the power boat racing, desert car rallies, polar trekking.
Brendan said, raising his voice to quash their argumentativeness, "downhill and cross-country skiing, skidoo and other snow-based sports, canoeing and kayaking on designated rivers, trekking on foot or mounted, hunting and fishing.
Still, while Pat was trekking through the jungle, wearing long pants and a long-sleeved shirt to keep off ticks, dengue-fever-carrying mosquitoes, bot flies, and other vermin, she was pickling in her own sweat.
South again only by trekking several kilometers afoot through regions of ship that looked like they had been mauled by naval weaponry.
Each year they came trekking up the Hainlin, sometimes only a handful carrying their wares in packs on their backs, sometimes a train with beasts of burden.
She'd made expenses already, there was no real need to keep up this hop hop about Rallen, but Tibo enjoyed the game with its snip-snap and I'm the One, so she kept on trekking.
You said in it that the gentleman called Neville left Bamangwato at the beginning of May in a wagon with a driver, a voorlooper, and a Kafir hunter called Jim, announcing his intention of trekking if possible as far as Inyati, the extreme trading post in the Matabele country, where he would sell his wagon and proceed on foot.