trek

Plural: treks

Noun

a journey by ox wagon (especially an organized migration by a group of settlers)
any long and difficult trip
A journey by ox wagon.
The Boer migration of 1835–1837.
A slow or difficult journey.
A long walk.

Verb

Verb Forms: trekked, trekking, treks

To make a long, arduous journey, often on foot.
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"
To make a slow or arduous journey.
To journey on foot, especially to hike through mountainous areas.
To travel by ox wagon.
To travel by walking.

Examples

I would drive to the shops from here; you can walk, but it's quite a trek.
Scoring a bingo sometimes feels like a long TREK across the board, connecting distant letters.
We're planning a trek up Kilimanjaro.

Origin / Etymology

From Afrikaans trek, from Dutch trekken, from Middle Dutch trekken (weak verb) and trēken (“to trek, place, bring, move”, strong verb), from Old Dutch *trekkan, *trekan, from Proto-West Germanic *trekan, from Proto-Germanic *trekaną, *trakjaną (“to drag, haul, scrape, pull”), from Proto-Indo-European *dreg- (“to drag, scrape”).

Synonyms

schlep#Noun, slog

Scrabble Score: 8

trek: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
trek: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
trek: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 8

trek: valid Words With Friends Word