Definitions for hikes

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hikes hike

Spelling: [hahyk]

IPA: /haɪk/

Hikes is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 37 anagrams from letters in hikes (ehiks).

Definitions for hikes

noun

1. a long walk or march for recreational activity, military training, or the like.
2. an increase or rise, often sharp and unexpected:

Idioms

1. take a hike, Slang. to go away because one's company is not desired.

verb (used with object)

1. to move, draw, or raise with a jerk (often followed by up):
2. to increase, often sharply and unexpectedly:

verb (used without object)

1. to walk or march a great distance, especially through rural areas, for pleasure, exercise, military training, or the like.
2. to move up or rise, as out of place or position (often followed by up):
3. Nautical. to hold oneself outboard on the windward side of a heeling sailboat to reduce the amount of heel.

Origin of hikes

First recorded in 1800-10; perhaps dialectal variant of hitch¹

Examples for hikes

"hike out the foot-boards; they slide in them grooves," said Dan.

The hike was started and continued for three miles, so did the rain.

Nothing to do but hike in a marsuit or sun oneself under a dome.

We don't know ourselves just how far we expect to hike this afternoon.

To break her self-destructive cycle and heal, she decides to hike 1,100 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail solo.

It was on a hike to the Grand Canyon at age 18 that Shattuck penned her first bucket list.

That is, soccer was intended to be no fun, like a 50-mile hike.

Until then, we will hike the stairs together, one carpeted step at a time.

Poked an old Civil War pistol out of the window and told me to hike.

Voters there also passed a hike in the state minimum wage, with 53 percent of the vote.