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Synonyms for trekking

Grammar : Verb
Spell : trek
Phonetic Transcription : trɛk

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Définition of trekking

Origin :
  • 1849 (n.); 1850 (v.), "to travel or migrate by ox wagon," from Afrikaans trek, from Dutch trekken "to march, journey," originally "to draw, pull," from Middle Dutch trecken (cf. Middle Low German trecken, Old High German trechan "to draw"). Especially in reference to the Groot Trek (1835 and after) of more than 10,000 Boers, who, discontent with the English colonial authorities, left Cape Colony and went north and north-east.
  • verb journey
Example sentences :
  • So before noon we were again "trekking," and that, too, straight for the Potomac.
  • Extract from : « The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson » by Edward A. Moore
  • In ten minutes after, they were trekking to the south-east, en route for Port Natal.
  • Extract from : « The Giraffe Hunters » by Mayne Reid
  • I shall have to do a lot of trekking in the wild, outlying parts.
  • Extract from : « The Rhodesian » by Gertrude Page
  • When trekking from the old kraal, they had brought with them a small bag of maize.
  • Extract from : « The Bush Boys » by Captain Mayne Reid
  • Or we watched a wandering tribe of Arabs trekking in the distance.
  • Extract from : « The Secrets of a Kuttite » by Edward O. Mousley
  • I'm going to lie here so that I can keep you children from falling out while we're trekking.
  • Extract from : « Poppy » by Cynthia Stockley
  • Trekking with Oom Tuys was a thoroughly delightful adventure.
  • Extract from : « Adventures in Swaziland » by Owen Rowe O'Neil
  • The drifts were the steepest and the worst that we experienced in perhaps all our trekking.
  • Extract from : « Two Years on Trek » by Louis Eugne du Moulin
  • Our third brigade was trekking away into the darkness as we came in.
  • Extract from : « Adventures of a Despatch Rider » by W. H. L. Watson
  • After about seven miles of this trekking, we reached billets.
  • Extract from : « Private Peat » by Harold R. Peat

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