1.
[syn: hike, hiking, tramp]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Hike \Hike\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hiked; p. pr. & vb. n.
Hiking.] [Cf. Hitch.]
1. To move with a swing, toss, throw, jerk, or the like.
[Dial. or Colloq.]
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
2. To raise with a quick movement.
[PJC]
3. To raise (a price) quickly or significantly in a single
step. They hiked gasoline prices twenty cents in less than
a week.
[PJC]
4. (Football) To pass (the ball) from the center to the
quarterback at the start of the play; to snap (the
ball).
[PJC]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
hiking
n 1: a long walk usually for exercise or pleasure; "she enjoys a
hike in her spare time" [syn: hike, hiking, tramp]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
50 Moby Thesaurus words for "hiking":
addition, adjunct, aggrandizement, ambling, ambulation, ampliation,
amplification, augmentation, backpacking, broadening, crescendo,
deployment, dispersion, enlargement, expansion, extension,
fanning out, flare, footing, footing it, footwork, going on foot,
hitchhiking, hitching, hoofing, increase, legwork, lumbering,
magnification, marching, pedestrianism, perambulation, raising,
sauntering, splay, spread, spreading, staggering, strolling,
thumbing, thumbing a ride, toddling, tottering, tramping, treading,
trudging, upping, waddling, walking, widening