hiker

English

Etymology

From hike +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈhaɪkɚ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -aɪkə(ɹ)

Noun

hiker (plural hikers)

1. One who hikes, especially frequently.
   • 1969, Jack Olsen, Night of the Grizzlies:

     The mother looks over her shoulder, and the hiker could swear she gives the weaning calf a dirty look; the time has come for the young animal to enter moosehood, to stop living in two worlds, […]

   • 2008 October 30, Prudence Lui, “A walk on the wild side”, in South China Morning Post‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 January 2024‎^[2]:

     On Taipa Island, there are two trails, the 2.2km Taipa Grande and 2.3km Taipa Pequena which take hikers to the two highest points of the island, offering a panoramic view of Macau. The Taipa Grande trail takes about 2? hours and can be reached through a short paved road off the Estrada Colonel Nicolau de Mesquita, near the United Chinese Cemetery. Adjacent to the trail on the east side of Taipa Grande, near the airport, is the Taipa Grande Nature Park. The Taipa Pequena trail can be accessed from the Estrada Lou Lim Ieoc, behind the Regency Hotel, and takes about two hours.

   • 2020 November 2, Hsin-po Huang, Dennis Xie, “Mountain rescue missions double from last year: MOI”, in Taipei Times‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 November 2020, Taiwan News, page 3‎^[4]:

     Members of the Taitung County Fire Department’s Kuanshan Branch rescue an injured hiker in Taitung on Thursday.

Derived terms

• hitch-hiker
• thru-hiker

Translations

one who hikes, especially frequently

• Arabic: مُتَنَزِّه m (mutanazzih)
• Belarusian: туры́ст m (turýst), туры́стка f (turýstka)
• Bulgarian: тури́ст (bg) m (turíst), тури́стка f (turístka)
• Catalan: excursionista (ca) m or f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 徒步旅行者 (túbù lǚxíngzhě)

• Finnish: vaeltaja (fi)
• French: randonneur (fr) m, randonneuse (fr) f
• Galician: camiñante m or f
• German: Wanderer (de) m, Wanderin (de) f, Wandrerin (de) f, Wanderfreund m, Wanderfreundin f
• Greek: πεζοπόρος (el) m or f (pezopóros)
• Italian: escursionista (it) m or f, gitante (it) m or f
• Japanese: ハイカー (ja) (haikā)
• Korean: 도보 여행자 (dobo yeohaengja), 하이커 (haikeo)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fotturist m, turgåer m

  Nynorsk: fotturist m

• Polish: wędrowiec (pl) m
• Russian: тури́ст (ru) m (turíst), тури́стка (ru) f (turístka), путеше́ственник (ru) m (putešéstvennik), путеше́ственница (ru) f (putešéstvennica)
• Spanish: caminante (es) m or f, excursionista m or f
• Ukrainian: тури́ст m (turýst), тури́стка f (turýstka)

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