Word forms: plural, 3rd person singular presenttense hikes, present participle hiking, past tense, past participle hiked
1. countable noun
A hike is a long walk in the country, especially one that you go on for pleasure.
2. verb
If you hike, you go for a long walk in the country.
You could hike through the Fish River Canyon. [VERB preposition/adverb]
We plan to hike the Samaria Gorge. [VERB noun]
[Also VERB]
Synonyms: walk, march, trek, ramble More Synonyms of hike
hikinguncountable noun [oft NOUN noun]
...some harder, more strenuous hiking on cliff pathways.
...heavy hiking boots.
3. countable noun
A hike is a sudden or large increase in prices, rates, taxes, or quantities.
[informal]
...a sudden 1.75 per cent hike in interest rates.
His economic plan, with its tax hikes and spending cuts, will slow the economy.
4. verb
To hike prices, rates, taxes, or quantities means to increase them suddenly or by a large amount.
[informal]
It has now been forced to hike its rates by 5.25 per cent. [VERB noun]
The federal government hiked the tax on hard liquor. [VERB noun]
Synonyms: increase, raise, inflate, bump up [informal] More Synonyms of hike
Hike up means the same as hike.
The insurers have started hiking up premiums by huge amounts. [VERBPARTICLE noun]
Big banks were hiking their rates up. [VERB noun PARTICLE]
Phrasal verbs:
See hike up
More Synonyms of hike
hike in British English
(haɪk)
verb
1. (intransitive)
to walk a long way, usually for pleasure or exercise, esp in the country
2. (usually foll by up)
to pull or be pulled; hitch
3. (transitive)
to increase (a price)
noun
4.
a long walk
5.
a rise in prices, wages, etc
Derived forms
hiker (ˈhiker)
noun
Word origin
C18: of uncertain origin
hike in American English
(haɪk)
verb intransitiveWord forms: hiked or ˈhiking
1.
to take a long, vigorous walk; tramp or march, esp. through the country, woods, etc.
2. US
to move up out of place
verb transitive
3. Informal
to pull or jerk up; hoist
to hike up one's socks
4. US, Informal
to raise (prices, etc.)
5. US, American Football
snap (sense 18)
noun
6. US
a long, vigorous walk
7. US, Informal
a moving upward; rise
a price hike
Derived forms
hiker (ˈhiker)
noun
Word origin
< dial. heik, prob. akin to hitch
COBUILD Collocations
hike
price hike
tax hike
Examples of 'hike' in a sentence
hike
But to pay for the small giveaways, he also hiked a stealth tax on insurance policy holders and ripped up salary sacrifice tax perks for company employees.
The Sun (2016)
Worn out from a long hike on the moors.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Five million workers want a hike because their rises have been wiped out by inflation.
The Sun (2007)
The couple were planning on some hiking and just generally enjoying the beautiful surrounds.
The Sun (2011)
It can go take a hike this year.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
That is why he would refuse any wage hike now.
The Sun (2006)
The biggest price hikes were in long haul destinations.
The Sun (2009)
Imagine you are going for a hike.
Christianity Today (2000)
Now further hikes are expected after growers and distributors were hit.
The Sun (2008)
Some festivals involve long hikes between acts.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Perhaps fewer teachers at the conference would have backed this tax hike on savings if they had done their sums.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Better to draw a line in the sand than to be for tax hikes in one place and tax cuts in another.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
The dividend will be hiked by 30%.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
You were for either tax cuts or tax hikes, small government or big government.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
The increases follow a ten per cent hike in beer tax in the Budget.
The Sun (2008)
It blamed huge rises over the past decade solely on Government tax hikes and global oil costs.
The Sun (2013)
Qualifying round failures will get a 21 per cent pay hike.
The Sun (2012)
But the Government still plan two petrol hikes next year.
The Sun (2011)
There are positive and negative effects from tax hikes and spending cuts, particularly the latter.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
But consumer confidence has plunged by the biggest amount for two years on fears over tax hikes and Government spending cuts.
The Sun (2010)
The only exercise I do is walking and hiking.
The Sun (2008)
The maps we use today, for hiking or walking, had their origins in war.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
It said the double whammy of a VAT hike and another rise in fuel duty would push truckers and cabbies to the brink.
The Sun (2010)
Some 46 per cent attribute gas and electricity hikes to rises in fuel duty and VAT made by successive administrations.
The Sun (2008)
In other languages
hike
British English: hike /haɪk/ NOUN
A hike is a long walk in the country, especially one that you go on for pleasure.
The site is reached by a 30-minute hike through dense forest.
American English: hike
Arabic: تَـجَوُّلٌ فِي الرِّيفِ
Brazilian Portuguese: caminhada
Chinese: 远足
Croatian: pješačenje
Czech: túra
Danish: vandre
Dutch: trektocht
European Spanish: caminata excursión
Finnish: vaellus
French: randonnée
German: Wanderung
Greek: πεζοπορία
Italian: escursione
Japanese: ハイキング
Korean: 하이킹
Norwegian: fottur
Polish: wędrówka
European Portuguese: caminhada
Romanian: plimbare de agrement
Russian: пешая прогулка
Latin American Spanish: caminata
Swedish: fotvandring
Thai: การเดินทางไกลด้วยเท้า
Turkish: yürüyüşe çıkma
Ukrainian: прогулянка пішки
Vietnamese: cuộc đi bộ đường dài
All related terms of 'hike'
hike up
If you hike up your clothing, you pull or lift it up quickly or roughly , especially so you can move more easily.
hike out
to lean backwards over the side of a light sailing boat in order to carry the centre of gravity as far to windward as possible to reduce heeling
tax hike
A hike is a sudden or large increase in prices, rates , taxes , or quantities.
price hike
A hike is a sudden or large increase in prices, rates, taxes , or quantities.
hitchhike
If you hitchhike , you travel by getting lifts from passing vehicles without paying .
Chinese translation of 'hike'
hike
(haɪk)
vi
(= go walking) 步行 (bùxíng)
vt
(inf, = raise) 突然提高 (tūrán tígāo)
n(c)
(= walk) 徒步旅行 (túbù lǚxíng) (次, cì)
(inf, in prices etc) 突然上涨(漲) (tūrán shàngzhǎng)
to go for a hike做徒步旅行 (zuò túbù lǚxíng)
to go hiking做徒步旅行 (zuò túbù lǚxíng)
1 (noun)
Definition
a long walk
a hike around the cluster of hills
Synonyms
walk
He often took long walks in the hills.
march
After a short march, the column entered the village.
trek
He is on a trek through the South Gobi desert.
ramble
an hour's ramble through the woods
tramp
He had just come from a day-long tramp on some wild moor.
traipse
It's rather a long traipse from here. Let's take a bus.
journey on foot
2 (noun)
Definition
a rise in price
(informal)
a hike in taxes and spending cuts
Synonyms
increase
a sharp increase in productivity
rise
the prospect of another rise in interest rates
raise
Within two months Kelly got a raise.
Opposites
cut
,
reduction
1 (verb)
Definition
to walk a long way in the country, usually for pleasure
You could hike through the Fish River Canyon.
Synonyms
walk
They walked in silence for a while.
march
A Scottish battalion was marching down the street.
trek
trekking through the jungles
ramble
freedom to ramble across the moors
tramp
He spent a month tramping in the hills around Balmoral.
leg it (informal)
He was legging it across the field.
back-pack
hoof it (slang)
2 (verb)
Definition
to raise (prices)
(informal)
It has now been forced to hike its rates by 5.25 per cent.
Synonyms
increase
The company has increased the price of its cars.
raise
Two incidents in recent days have raised the level of concern.
inflate
Promotion can inflate a film's final cost.
bump up (informal)
up
Opposites
cut
phrasal verb
See hike something up
Additional synonyms
in the sense of inflate
Definition
to give an impression of greater importance than is justified
Promotion can inflate a film's final cost.
Synonyms
increase,
boost,
expand,
enlarge,
escalate,
amplify
in the sense of leg it
Definition
to walk, run, or hurry
He was legging it across the field.
Synonyms
run,
walk,
escape,
flee,
hurry,
run away,
make off,
make tracks,
hotfoot,
go on foot,
skedaddle (informal)
in the sense of march
Definition
a long or exhausting walk
After a short march, the column entered the village.