TREKKER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does trekker mean? 

• TREKKER (noun)
  The noun TREKKER has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: TREKKER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TREKKER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

traveler; traveller (a person who changes location)

Derivation:

trek (make a long and difficult journey)

trek (journey on foot, especially in the mountains)

 Context examples 

When comet 45P zipped past Earth early in 2017, researchers observing from NASA’s Infrared Telescope Facility, or IRTF, in Hawai’i gave the long-time trekker a thorough astronomical checkup.

(NASA Telescope Studies Quirky Comet 45P, NASA)