TREK (trekked, trekking)

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Irregular inflected forms: trekked    , trekking   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does trek mean? 

• TREK (noun)
  The noun TREK has 2 senses:

1. a journey by ox wagon (especially an organized migration by a group of settlers)

2. any long and difficult trip

  Familiarity information: TREK used as a noun is rare.

• TREK (verb)
  The verb TREK has 2 senses:

1. journey on foot, especially in the mountains

2. make a long and difficult journey

  Familiarity information: TREK used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TREK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A journey by ox wagon (especially an organized migration by a group of settlers)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("trek" is a kind of...):

journey; journeying (the act of traveling from one place to another)

Domain region:

Republic of South Africa; South Africa (a republic at the southernmost part of Africa; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1910; first European settlers were Dutch (known as Boers))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Any long and difficult trip

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("trek" is a kind of...):

trip (a journey for some purpose (usually including the return))

• TREK (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they trek    ... he / she / it treks   
Past simple: trekked   
Past participle: trekked   
-ing form: trekking   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Journey on foot, especially in the mountains

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Context example:

We spent the summer trekking in the foothills of the Himalayas

Hypernyms (to "trek" is one way to...):

journey; travel (undertake a journey or trip)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

trekker (a traveler who makes a long arduous journey (as hiking through mountainous country))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make a long and difficult journey

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Context example:

They trekked towards the North Pole with sleds and skis

Hypernyms (to "trek" is one way to...):

journey; travel (undertake a journey or trip)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

trekker (a traveler who makes a long arduous journey (as hiking through mountainous country))

 Context examples 

Over a thousand were reported to have reached Rachel, but most did not make the final trek to the base.

(Millions don't turn up to 'storm' US airbase for extraterrestrial evidence, Wikinews)

University of Arizona scientists trekked across the Americas: from moist, tropical jungles of Panama to the frigid boreal forests of Colorado to the wet temperate forests of the Pacific Northwest.

(From tropical to boreal ecosystems, temperature drives functioning, National Science Foundation)

In its yearly trek around the sun, asteroid 2016 HO3 spends about half of the time closer to the sun than Earth and passes ahead of our planet, and about half of the time farther away, causing it to fall behind.

(Small Asteroid Is Earth's Constant Companion, NASA)