Trek

English

Noun

Trek (plural Treks)

1. A slow or difficult journey.
2. (South African) A journey by ox wagon, especially the Boer migration of 1835-7.

Verb

Trek (third-person singular simple present Treks, present participle trekking, simple past and past participle trekked)

1. (intransitive) To make a slow or arduous journey.
2. (intransitive) To journey on foot, especially to hike through mountainous areas.
3. (South African) To travel by ox wagon.

Thesaurus

campaign, circuit, course, cruise, emigrate, emigration, excursion, expatriate, expatriation, expedition, fare, flight, flit, globe-trot, go abroad, go on safari, go overseas, grand tour, hit the trail, immigrate, immigration, in-migrate, in-migration, intermigrate, intermigration, jaunt, journey, junket, make a journey, make a pilgrimage, make a trip, migrate, migration, out-migrate, out-migration, outing, package tour, passage, peregrinate, peregrination, peregrinations, pilgrim, pilgrimage, pleasure trip, progress, range the world, remigrate, remigration, round trip, rubberneck, rubberneck tour, run, safari, sally, shoot, sight-see, stalk, swarm, swarming, take a trip, take the road, take wing, tour, transmigrate, transmigration, travels, trip, turn, voyage, wayfare

Etymology

From Afrikaans trek.

Translations

• Finnish: tarpoa (1), patikoida (2)
• Spanish: jornada (es) f.

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Afrikaans

Verb

Trek

1. pull
2. move (moving house)

Noun

Trek

1. journey as used in Groot Trek for example

Etymology

Dutch trekken

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Dutch

Noun

Trek c. (uncountable)

1. appetite

   Ik heb trek in een reep chocola — I could (now) have a chocolate bar

   Ik heb geen trek in deze klus — I have no mind to carry out this task

2. journey

Verb

Trek

1. first-person singular present indicative of trekken.
2. imperative of trekken.

Etymology

Middle Dutch trekken (wk) and trēken (st) "to trek, place, bring, move" from Old Dutch *trekkan, trekan from Proto-Germanic *trikanan, *trakjanan (“to drag, scrape, pull”) from Proto-Indo-European *dreg- (“to drag, scrape”). Akin to Old High German trehhan (“to push, bump, move, scratch”), Middle Low German trecken (“to pull”).

Anagrams

• rekt