trek

plural treks · alternative archaic treck

1. South AfricaA journey by ox wagon.
2. South AfricaThe Boer migration of 1835–1837.
3. A slow or difficult journey.

   We're planning a trek up Kilimanjaro.

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   Early the next morning I set off on the long and hazardous trek through jungles and hills into Assam, and regretfully said "good-bye" to the gallant little Burma Railways, which had functioned to the last and played a big part in evacuating many thousands of refugees and wounded soldiers in the path of the rapidly advancing Japanese.

   1943 November and December, G. T. Porter, “The Lines Behind the Lines in Burma”, in Railway Magazine, page 327

   Young Indians looking for work opportunities have made up a sizeable portion of undocumented migrants in the US, many after making the dangerous trek through Latin America to reach the US southern border.

   2025 February 7, Esha Mitra, Aishwarya S Iyer and Ross Adkin, “‘Treated like criminals’: Shackling of Indians aboard 40-hour migrant flight sparks new outrage against Trump”, in CNN

4. A long walk.

   I would drive to the shops from here; you can walk, but it's quite a trek.

   Synonyms: slog, schlep

present singular third person treks · participle present trekking · participle past trekked · past trekked · alternative archaic treck

1. intransitiveTo make a slow or arduous journey.

   Before that they had been a good deal on the move, trekking about after the white man, who was one of those rolling stones that keep going round after a soft job.

   1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Beach of Falesá

2. intransitiveTo journey on foot, especially to hike through mountainous areas.

   Synonyms: tramp

3. South AfricaTo travel by ox wagon.
4. NigeriaTo travel by walking.

1. abbreviationAbbreviation of Star Trek.

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   Spock’s half-brother Cybok virtually brought Kirk and McCoy to their knees with a simple imposing of their own self-reflection. […] it gave the writers of Trek a generic bad guy that is best described as a eccentric-lunatic genius on a personal quest which consequently affects the universe on a catastrophic level.

   1994 November 22, James A. Kimble, “Part V Revisited in Star Trek Generations”, in The Connector, volume XXII, number 11, Lowell, Mass.: University of Massachusetts Lowell, page 15, column 1

comparative more Trek · superlative most Trek

1. abbreviationAbbreviation of Star Trek.