Antonyms for take a hike
Grammar : Verb |
Spell : hahyk |
Phonetic Transcription : haɪk |
- advance
- aid
- allow
- argue
- arrive
- assist
- be born
- begin
- bicker
- break
- capture
- care
- cease
- combine
- come
- come back
- come in
- complete
- connect
- continue
- create
- dawdle
- disagree
- discourage
- dissuade
- do well
- engage
- enter
- face
- fill
- fill up
- finish
- go in
- grab
- halt
- help
- hold
- join
- keep
- maintain
- meet
- mismatch
- permit
- persevere
- put
- remain
- rush in
- save
- seize
- stand
- stay
- stop
- succeed
- support
- surrender
- take on
- unite
- wait
Definition of take a hike
Origin :- 1809, hyke "to walk vigorously," an English dialectal word of unknown origin. A yike from 1736 answers to the sense.
- HIKE, v. to go away. It is generally used in a contemptuous sense. Ex. "Come, hike," i.e. take yourself off; begone. [Rev. Robert Forby, "The Vocabulary of East Anglia," London, 1830]
- Sense of "pull up" (as pants) first recorded 1873 in American English, and may be a variant of hitch; extended sense of "raise" (as wages) is 1867. Related: Hiked; hiking. The noun is from 1865.
- As in leave : verb depart, abandon physically
- As in light out : verb run away
- As in part : verb leave, go away from someone
- As in withdraw : verb remove something or someone from situation
- As in blow : verb leave suddenly
- As in bug off : verb go away
- As in clear out : verb leave, often quickly
- As in desert : verb abandon, defect
- As in exit : verb leave a place
- As in flee : verb run away to escape
- As in get along : verb depart
- As in get out : verb escape
- As in go : verb advance, proceed physically
Synonyms for take a hike
- abjure
- abscond
- absent oneself
- advance
- alight
- apostatize
- approach
- avoid
- back out
- bail out
- be off
- beach
- beat a hasty retreat
- beat it
- begone
- betray
- bid farewell
- blow
- bolt
- book
- bow out
- break
- break away
- break off
- break out
- break up
- bug off
- bug out
- buzz off
- check out
- chuck
- clear out
- come away
- cop out
- crawl out
- cruise
- cut and run
- cut out
- decamp
- dedomicile
- defect
- depart
- desert
- detach
- disappear
- disengage
- ditch
- do vanishing act
- dodge
- draw away
- draw back
- drop out
- duck
- ease out
- egress
- eliminate
- elope
- elude
- embark
- emigrate
- escape
- evacuate
- evade
- exfiltrate
- exit
- extract
- extricate oneself
- fall back
- fare
- flake off
- flee
- flit
- fly
- fly the coop
- forsake
- free oneself
- get
- get away
- get going
- get lost
- get off
- get the hell out
- git
- give ground
- give the slip
- give up
- give way
- go
- go away
- go AWOL
- go back on
- go forth
- go out
- go over the hill
- go separate ways
- go west
- head
- head out
- hie
- hightail
- hit the road
- hotfoot
- issue
- jilt
- journey
- jump
- keep aloof
- keep apart
- kite
- lam
- leave
- leave flat
- leave high and dry
- leave in the lurch
- leave stranded
- light
- light out
- make
- make a break for it
- make a getaway
- make for
- make off
- make one's escape
- make one's way
- make oneself scarce
- make quick exit
- make tracks
- march
- maroon
- migrate
- mosey
- move
- move off
- move on
- move out
- near
- opt out
- part
- part company
- pass
- phase out
- play truant
- proceed
- progress
- pull back
- pull out
- push ahead
- push off
- push on
- quail
- quit
- quit the scene
- recede
- recoil
- relinquish
- remove oneself
- renounce
- repair
- resign
- retire
- retreat
- ride off
- run along
- run away
- run out on
- sally
- say goodbye
- scamper
- scoot
- scram
- secede
- seclude oneself
- separate
- set off
- set out
- ship out
- shirk
- shove off
- shrink
- shun
- skedaddle
- skip
- skip out
- slip out
- sneak off
- split
- split up
- start
- step down
- step on it
- step on the gas
- strand
- strike out
- switch
- take a hike
- take a powder
- take away
- take flight
- take leave
- take off
- take one's leave
- take out
- tergiversate
- throw over
- travel
- vacate
- vamoose
- vanish
- violate oath
- walk
- walk out
- walk out on
- wend
- withdraw
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