as in trip
a going from one place to another usually of some distance
started on our trek up the mountain before the sun rose
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as in to travel
to take a trip especially of some distance
adventurers trekking across the desert in search of a fabled city of gold
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Recent Examples of trek
Brent Lang, Variety, 6 Mar. 2025
Resilience is hitting all of its marks during its long, looping trek to the moon and will attempt its own touchdown on June 5, ispace announced on Monday (March 3).
—Mike Wall, Space.com, 4 Mar. 2025
Jen Murphy, Outside Online, 3 Mar. 2025
The team then trekked into Svalbard’s mountains and set up timelapse cameras at 13 den sites from 2016 through 2020 and in 2023.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 27 Feb. 2025
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Noun
Last month, Robbie Brenner and a team of Mattel executives made the trek to the Sundance Film Festival.
—Brent Lang, Variety, 6 Mar. 2025
Resilience is hitting all of its marks during its long, looping trek to the moon and will attempt its own touchdown on June 5, ispace announced on Monday (March 3).
—Mike Wall, Space.com, 4 Mar. 2025
Verb
In 2006, two women fell some 300 feet to their deaths while trekking to Opaekaa Falls in Kauai.
—Jen Murphy, Outside Online, 3 Mar. 2025
The team then trekked into Svalbard’s mountains and set up timelapse cameras at 13 den sites from 2016 through 2020 and in 2023.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 27 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for trek
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Who plays center the rest of the trip when there’s no shuttle from Triple-A Iowa?—
Patrick Mooney,
The Athletic,
11 Mar. 2025
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Game Preview The road trip hasn't fared well for the Knicks, who, after losing a home matchup to the Golden State Warriors, made the trip West and proceeded to lose games against the Los Angeles Lakers and Los Angeles Clippers.—
Faisal Kutty,
Newsweek,
11 Mar. 2025
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Until an hour or so prior, Messi’s presence on the traveling roster was uncertain, with the Argentine not having played in the club’s previous three matches.—
Pablo Maurer,
The Athletic,
13 Mar. 2025
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This expansion affects light wavelengths emanating from cosmic objects of interest, like stars, that travel toward our detectors on Earth.—
Monisha Ravisetti,
Space.com,
12 Mar. 2025
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For decades, Hurtigruten has been a leader in Norwegian coastal cruising and, more recently, expedition travel.—
David Nikel,
Forbes,
21 Mar. 2025
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The ambitious shoot took place over five years and 180 expeditions.—
Michael Schneider,
Variety,
21 Mar. 2025
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Haitian art has journeyed from Iowa to the walls of Miami’s Little Haiti.—
Jonel Juste,
Miami Herald,
6 Mar. 2025
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Hot on the trail of a new brood of evil Mogwai, our heroes journey deep into the American West, coming up against new supernatural creatures and picking up a few mysterious characters along the way.—
Denise Petski,
Deadline,
6 Mar. 2025
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The Inn on Biltmore Estate Asheville, North Carolina The only thing finer than touring the historic Biltmore Estate is spending the night there.—
Lisa Cericola,
Southern Living,
11 Mar. 2025
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After being nominated for inclusion in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame — a historic first for a Spanish-language act — and after successfully touring Latin America and Spain, Mexican rock band Maná will tour the U.S. and Canada this fall, Billboard can announce.—
Leila Cobo,
Billboard,
10 Mar. 2025
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Odin was attempting to voyage to an asteroid in the hopes that onboard cameras could confirm whether the space rock is filled with platinum, a valuable resource that AstroForge hopes to one day collect and bring back home.—
Jackie Wattles,
CNN,
6 Mar. 2025
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The uncrewed lander, named Blue Ghost, made its touch down early Sunday on the lunar surface after more than six weeks voyaging millions of miles through the cosmos.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA TODAY,
2 Mar. 2025
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People pilgrimage here to sample the best of traditional rural Portuguese cuisine in a delightful countryside setting.—
Isabelle Kliger,
Forbes,
28 Feb. 2025
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And hundreds were killed outside Mecca in a stampede during the annual hajj pilgrimage in 2015.—
N'dea Yancey-Bragg,
USA TODAY,
7 Feb. 2025
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“Trek.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trek. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.
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