hiking

Plural: hikings

Noun

• a long walk usually for exercise or pleasure
• Walking in the countryside for pleasure or sport.
• The act by which something is hiked, or raised sharply.

Verb

• increase
• walk a long way, as for pleasure or physical exercise
  • "We were hiking in Colorado"
• present participle and gerund of hike

Examples

• To protect the glacier, officials have limited the number of visitors to 10,000 a day and have banned hiking on the ice.

Synonyms

boost, hike, hike up, tramp