- 1[intransitive, transitive] to go for a long walk in the country, especially for pleasure sturdy boots for hiking over rough terrain hike something to hike the Rockies
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- 2[intransitive] go hiking to spend time hiking for pleasure If the weather's good, we'll go hiking this weekend.
- 3[transitive] hike something (up) to increase prices, taxes, etc. suddenly by large amounts The state hiked up the price of gas by over 40%. Phrasal Verbshike up
hike
verbNAmE//haɪk//
Verb Forms present simple I / you / we / they hike he / she / it hikes
past simple hiked
-ing form hiking
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