trek

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   make a long and difficult journey

   They trekked towards the North Pole with sleds and skis

2. 2
   verb

   journey on foot, especially in the mountains

   We spent the summer trekking in the foothills of the Himalayas

3. 3
   noun

   A slow or difficult journey.

   We're planning a trek up Kilimanjaro.

4. 4
   noun

   A long walk.

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

5. 5
   verb

   To 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.

6. 6
   name

   Abbreviation of Star Trek.

   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.

7. 7
   noun

   any long and difficult trip

8. 8
   noun

   a journey by ox wagon (especially an organized migration by a group of settlers)

Etymology

From Afrikaans trek, from Dutch trekken, from Middle Dutch trekken (weak verb) and trēken (“to trek, place, bring, move”, strong verb), from Old Dutch *trekkan, *trekan, from Proto-West Germanic *trekan, from Proto-Germanic *trekaną, *trakjaną (“to drag, haul, scrape, pull”), from Proto-Indo-European *dreg- (“to drag, scrape”).