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say it: trek
trek is a noun and verb meaning "a journey by ox wagon (especially an organized migration by a group of settlers)". It is pronounced /ˈtɹɛk/ — trek. It carries 4 recorded senses.
journey on foot, especially in the mountains
“We spent the summer trekking in the foothills of the Himalayas”
make a long and difficult journey
“They trekked towards the North Pole with sleds and skis”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for trek come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.