hiking

hiking

English

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhaɪkɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -aɪkɪŋ

Verb

hiking

1. present participle of hike

Noun

hiking (uncountable)

1. Walking in the countryside for pleasure or sport.

   To protect the glacier, officials have limited the number of visitors to 10,000 a day and have banned hiking on the ice. 

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Usage notes

• This term is not commonly used in New Zealand, where the term tramping is preferred.

Translations

walking

Armenian: արշավ (hy) (aršav) Catalan: senderisme (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 徒步旅行 (zh) (túbù lǚxíng), 健行 (zh) (jiànxíng), 遠足 (zh), 远足 (zh) (yuǎnzú) Dutch: wandelen (nl) Esperanto: please add this translation if you can Finnish: retkeily (fi), kävelyretki, vaellus (fi) French: randonnée pédestre f, randonnée (fr) f Georgian: ლაშქრობა (laškroba)

German: Bergwandern n, Wandern (de) n Irish: fánaíocht f Japanese: ハイキング (haikingu) Korean: 하이킹 (haiking) Portuguese: pedestrianismo (pt) m, caminhada (pt) f Russian: пе́ший тури́зм m (péšij turízm), (instance) пешехо́дная экску́рсия f (pešexódnaja ekskúrsija), (instance) экску́рсия (ru) f (ekskúrsija), (instance) похо́д (ru) m (poxód), (short) прогу́лка (ru) f (progúlka) Spanish: senderismo (es) m Zazaki: warway