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  • verb Present participle of hike.
  • noun walking in the countryside for pleasure or sport

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  • noun a long walk usually for exercise or pleasure

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  • I'd say that in Italian we use the loanword trekking when we actually mean hiking. Example: trekking in Sardegna.

    December 9, 2010