Dictionary Definition
hike
Noun
1 a long walk usually for exercise or pleasure
[syn: tramp]
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]
Verb
2 walk a long way, as for pleasure or physical
exercise; "We were hiking in Colorado"; "hike the Rockies"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -aɪk
Noun
- A long walk.
- An abrupt increase.
- The tenants were not happy with the rent hike.
- The snap of the ball to start a play.
Translations
a long walk
- German: Wanderung
- Japanese: 散策, ハイキング
- Swedish: Vandring
an abrupt increase
the snap of the ball to start a play
Verb
Translations
to walk along a hiking trail
- German: wandern
- Japanese: 散策, ハイキング
- Swedish: vandra
to snap the ball to start a play
nautical: to lean out to the windward side of a
sailboat
See also
Extensive Definition
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 in Catalan: Hike
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
access,
accession, accretion, accrual, accruement, accumulation, add to,
addition, advance, aggrandize, aggrandizement, airing, amble, amplification, amplify, appreciation, ascent, augment, augmentation, backpack, ballooning, bloat, bloating, blow up, boom, boost, broaden, broadening, build, build up, buildup, bulk, bulk out, buoy up, cast up,
constitutional,
crescendo, defile, develop, development, dilate, distend, edema, elevate, elevation, enlarge, enlargement, erect, escalate, exalt, expand, expansion, explore, extend, extension, fatten, file, file off, fill out, flood, footslog, forced march,
gain, glee, go on parade, goose-step,
greatening, growth, gush, heave, heft, heighten, heist, hike up, hoick, hoist, hold up, huff, increase, increment, inflate, inflation, jack up, jaunt, jerk up, jocularity, jocundity, jollity, joviality, jump, jump up, knock up, leap, lengthen, levitate, lift, lift up, lob, loft, magnify, march, maximize, merriment, mounting, multiplication, mush, parade, parlay, peripatetic journey,
peripateticism,
perk up, productiveness, proliferation, promenade, puff, puff up, pump, pump up, put up, pyramid, raise, raise up, ramble, rarefy, rear, rear up, rise, rove, saunter, schlep, set up, sky, snowballing, spread, stick up, stretch, stroll, sufflate, surge, swell, swelling, thicken, throw up, traipse, tramp, trudge, tumescence, turn, up, upbuoy, upcast, upheave, uphoist, uphold, uplift, upping, upraise, uprear, upsurge, upswing, upthrow, uptrend, upturn, walk, walkabout, walking tour,
wander, waxing, widen, widening