trek

UK /tɹɛk/ US /tɹɛk/
noun 4verb 4name 1adj 1

Definitions

noun

1

A journey by ox wagon.

2

The Boer migration of 1835–1837.

3

A slow or difficult journey.

We're planning a trek up Kilimanjaro.

Early the next morning I set off on the long and hazardous trek through jungles and hills into Assam, and regretfully said "good-bye" to the gallant little Burma Railways, which had functioned to the last and played a big part in evacuating many thousands of refugees and wounded soldiers in the path of the rapidly advancing Japanese.

4

A long walk.

I would drive to the shops from here; you can walk, but it's quite a trek.

verb

1

To make a slow or arduous journey.

Before that they had been a good deal on the move, trekking about after the white man, who was one of those rolling stones that keep going round after a soft job.

2

To journey on foot, especially to hike through mountainous areas.

3

To travel by ox wagon.

4

To travel by walking.

name

1

Abbreviation of Star Trek.

Spock’s half-brother Cybok virtually brought Kirk and McCoy to their knees with a simple imposing of their own self-reflection. […] it gave the writers of Trek a generic bad guy that is best described as a eccentric-lunatic genius on a personal quest which consequently affects the universe on a catastrophic level.

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