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hiker

UK/ˈhaɪ̯kə/US/ˈhaɪ̯kɚ/
nounB1+Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #12,151 of 15,258neutral

Other forms: hikers

A hiker is somebody who walks long distances in the country. A lone hiker.

It suggests boots, a map and a day out rather than a stroll. A hiker who tells somebody where they are going is a hiker who gets found.

Paxson Woelber · CC BY-SA 4.0

Definitions of hiker

  1. 1nounhikerSomebody who walks long distances in the country.B1+

    “A hiker found the path had been washed away.”

hiker is a walker.

Where it comes from

  1. Middle English

    hytchen

  2. English

    hike

  3. English, today

    hiker

Built from

  • hyke · English — to walk vigorously
  • icchen · Middle English — to move, jerk, stir

From hike + -er. hike comes from English dialectal hyke (“to walk vigorously”), probably a Northern form of hitch, from Middle English hytchen, hichen, icchen (“to move, jerk, stir”). Cognate with Scots hyke (“to move with a jerk”), dialectal German hicken (“to hobble, walk with a limp”), Danish hinke (“to hop”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

hiker in the wild

  • The 1.35 mile hiker-biker trail around the lake is part of the Anacostia Tributary Trail System and East Coast Greenway.

    Lake Artemesia

  • John Harvey Butchart was an American hiker and mathematician who was well known for his exploits in and around the Grand Canyon in Arizona, United States.

    Harvey Butchart

  • The story is about a man who picks up a hitch-hiker whilst driving to London.

    The Hitch-Hiker (short story)

  • The biker/hiker trail shares roughly half of its trail with the Appalachian Trail and is a very popular route within the State Park.

    Cumberland County Biker/Hiker Trail

  • In the story, a man on a cross-country drive repeatedly notices the same hitch-hiker standing along the side of the road.

    The Hitch-Hiker (radio play)

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the hyke family

hike

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