Synonyms of the word hike


HIKEBOOST - ELEVATE - HIKING - INCREASE - INCREMENT - LIFT - RAISE - RISE - TRAMP - WALK

hike

  • n. A long walk.
  • n. An abrupt increase.
  • n. (American football) The snap of the ball to start a play.
  • n. A command to a dog sled team, given by a musher.
  • v. To take a long walk for pleasure or exercise.
  • v. To unfairly or suddenly raise a price.
  • v. (American football) To snap the ball to start a play.
  • v. (nautical) To lean out to the windward side of a sailboat in order to counterbalance the effects of the…
  • v. To pull up or tug upwards sharply.

boost

  • n. A push from behind, as to one who is endeavoring to climb; help.
  • n. (automotive engineering) A positive intake manifold pressure in cars with turbochargers or superchargers.
  • v. (transitive) To lift or push from behind (one who is endeavoring to climb); to push up.
  • v. (transitive, by extension) To help or encourage (something) to increase or improve; to assist in overcoming…
  • v. (slang, transitive) To steal.
  • v. (Canada, transitive) To jump-start a vehicle by using cables to connect the battery in a running vehicle…
  • v. (transitive, medicine) To give a booster shot to.

elevate

  • v. (transitive) To raise (something) to a higher position; to lift.
  • v. (transitive) To promote (someone) to a higher rank.
  • v. (transitive) To ennoble or honour/honor (someone).
  • v. (transitive) To lift someone's spirits; to cheer up.
  • v. (transitive) To increase the intensity of something, especially that of sound.
  • v. (dated, colloquial, humorous) To intoxicate in a slight degree; to render tipsy.
  • v. (obsolete, Latinism) To lessen; to detract from; to disparage.
  • adj. (obsolete) Elevated; raised aloft.

hiking

  • v. present participle of hike.
  • n. Walking in the countryside for pleasure or sport.

increase

  • v. (intransitive) (of a quantity) To become larger.
  • v. (transitive) To make (a quantity) larger.
  • v. To multiply by the production of young; to be fertile, fruitful, or prolific.
  • v. (astronomy, intransitive) To become more nearly full; to show more of the surface; to wax.
  • n. An amount by which a quantity is increased.
  • n. For a quantity, the act or process of becoming larger.
  • n. (knitting) The creation of one or more new stitches; see Increase (knitting).

increment

  • n. The action of increasing or becoming greater.
  • n. (heraldry) The waxing of the moon.
  • n. The amount of increase.
  • n. (rhetoric) An amplification without strict climax, as in the following passage: "Finally, brethren, whatsoever…
  • v. (intransitive, transitive) To increase by steps or by a step, especially by one.

lift

  • n. (Britain dialectal, chiefly Scotland) Air.
  • n. (Britain dialectal, chiefly Scotland) The sky; the heavens; firmament; atmosphere.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To raise or rise.
  • v. (transitive, slang) To steal. (for this sense Cleasby suggests perhaps a relation to the root of Gothic…
  • v. (transitive) To remove (a ban, restriction, etc.).
  • v. (transitive) To alleviate, to lighten (pressure, tension, stress, etc.).
  • v. (transitive) to cause to move upwards.
  • v. (informal, intransitive) To lift weights; to weight-lift.
  • v. To try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing.
  • v. To elevate or improve in rank, condition, etc.; often with up.
  • v. (obsolete) To bear; to support.
  • v. To collect, as moneys due; to raise.
  • v. (computing, programming) To transform (a function) into a corresponding function in a different context.
  • n. An act of lifting or raising.
  • n. The act of transporting someone in a vehicle; a ride; a trip.
  • n. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) Mechanical device for vertically transporting goods or people between…
  • n. An upward force, such as the force that keeps aircraft aloft.
  • n. (measurement) the difference in elevation between the upper pool and lower pool of a waterway, separated…
  • n. (historical slang) A thief.
  • n. (dance) The lifting of a dance partner into the air.
  • n. Permanent construction with a built-in platform that is lifted vertically.
  • n. an improvement in mood.
  • n. The space or distance through which anything is lifted.
  • n. A rise; a degree of elevation.
  • n. A lift gate.
  • n. (nautical) A rope leading from the masthead to the extremity of a yard below, and used for raising or…
  • n. (engineering) One of the steps of a cone pulley.
  • n. (shoemaking) A layer of leather in the heel of a shoe.
  • n. (horology) That portion of the vibration of a balance during which the impulse is given.

raise

  • v. (physical) To cause to rise; to lift or elevate.
  • v. (transitive) To create, increase or develop.
  • v. (poker, intransitive) To respond to a bet by increasing the amount required to continue in the hand.
  • v. (arithmetic) To exponentiate, to involute.
  • v. (linguistics, transitive, of a verb) To extract (a subject or other verb argument) out of an inner clause.
  • v. (linguistics, transitive, of a vowel) To produce a vowel with the tongue positioned closer to the roof…
  • v. To increase the nominal value of (a cheque, money order, etc.) by fraudulently changing the writing or…
  • v. (computing) To throw (an exception).
  • n. (US) An increase in wages or salary; a rise (UK).
  • n. (weightlifting) A shoulder exercise in which the arms are elevated against resistance.
  • n. (curling) A shot in which the delivered stone bumps another stone forward.
  • n. (poker) A bet which increased the previous bet.
  • n. A cairn or pile of stones.

rise

  • v. (intransitive) To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground.
  • v. (intransitive) To increase in value or standing.
  • v. To begin; to develop.
  • v. (transitive) To go up; to ascend; to climb.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to go up or ascend.
  • v. (obsolete) To retire; to give up a siege.
  • v. To come; to offer itself.
  • v. (printing, dated) To be lifted, or capable of being lifted, from the imposing stone without dropping any…
  • n. The process of or an action or instance of moving upwards or becoming greater.
  • n. The process of or an action or instance of coming to prominence.
  • n. (chiefly Britain) An increase (in a quantity, price, etc).
  • n. The amount of material extending from waist to crotch in a pair of trousers or shorts.
  • n. (Britain, Ireland, Australia) An increase in someone's pay rate; a raise (US).
  • n. (Sussex) A small hill; used chiefly in place names.
  • n. An area of terrain that tends upward away from the viewer, such that it conceals the region behind it;…
  • n. (informal) An angry reaction.
  • n. Alternative form of rice (“twig”).

tramp

  • n. (pejorative) A homeless person, a vagabond.
  • n. (pejorative) A disreputable, promiscuous woman; a slut.
  • n. Any ship which does not have a fixed schedule or published ports of call.
  • n. (Australia, New Zealand) A long walk, possibly of more than one day, in a scenic or wilderness area.
  • n. Clipping of trampoline, especially a very small one.
  • n. (in apposition): Of objects, stray and intrusive and unwanted.
  • v. To walk with heavy footsteps.
  • v. To walk for a long time (usually through difficult terrain).
  • v. To hitchhike.
  • v. (transitive) To tread upon forcibly and repeatedly; to trample.
  • v. (transitive) To travel or wander through.
  • v. (transitive, Scotland) To cleanse, as clothes, by treading upon them in water.

walk

  • v. (intransitive) To move on the feet by alternately setting each foot (or pair or group of feet, in the…
  • v. (intransitive, colloquial, law) To "walk free", i.e. to win, or avoid, a criminal court case, particularly…
  • v. (intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) Of an object, to go missing or be stolen.
  • v. (intransitive, cricket, of a batsman) To walk off the field, as if given out, after the fielding side…
  • v. (transitive) To travel (a distance) by walking.
  • v. (transitive) To take for a walk or accompany on a walk.
  • v. (transitive, baseball) To allow a batter to reach base by pitching four balls.
  • v. (transitive) To move something by shifting between two positions, as if it were walking.
  • v. (transitive) To full; to beat cloth to give it the consistency of felt.
  • v. (transitive) To traverse by walking (or analogous gradual movement).
  • v. (intransitive, colloquial) To leave, resign.
  • v. (transitive) To push (a vehicle) alongside oneself as one walks.
  • v. To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct oneself.
  • v. To be stirring; to be abroad; to go restlessly about; said of things or persons expected to remain quiet,…
  • v. (obsolete) To be in motion; to act; to move.
  • v. (transitive, historical) To put, keep, or train (a puppy) in a walk, or training area for dogfighting.
  • v. (transitive, informal, hotel) To move a guest to another hotel if their confirmed reservation is not available…
  • n. A trip made by walking.
  • n. A distance walked.
  • n. (sports) An Olympic Games track event requiring that the heel of the leading foot touch the ground before…
  • n. A manner of walking; a person's style of walking.
  • n. A path, sidewalk/pavement or other maintained place on which to walk. Compare trail.
  • n. (poker) A situation where all players fold to the big blind, as their first action (instead of calling…
  • n. (baseball) An award of first base to a batter following four balls being thrown by the pitcher; known…
  • n. In coffee, coconut, and other plantations, the space between them.
  • n. (historical) A place for keeping and training puppies for dogfighting.
  • n. (historical) An enclosed area in which a gamecock is confined to prepare him for fighting.
  • n. (graph theory) A sequence of alternating vertices and edges, where each edge's endpoints are the preceding…
  • n. (colloquial) Something very easily accomplished; a walk in the park.

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