Trek Meaning
/tɹɛk/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA journey by ox wagon.
nounThe Boer migration of 1835–1837.
Sentence Examples
The daily trek to midtown Manhattan takes about an hour and a half.
We're taking a crash course in first aid before our two-week trek through the mountains.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The explorers will ____ through the difficult hot desert for two weeks.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The adventurers began a long and difficult ____ through the mountains to reach the remote and hidden village today.
Word Origin & History
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”).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"Early the next morning I set off on the long and hazardous trek through jungles and hills into Assam, and regretfully said "good-bye" to the gallant little Burma Railways, which had functioned to the last and played a big part in evacuating many thousands of refugees and wounded soldiers in the path of the rapidly advancing Japanese."
— 1943 November and December, G. T. Porter, “The Lines Behind the Lines in Burma”, in Railway Magazine, page 327:
"Young Indians looking for work opportunities have made up a sizeable portion of undocumented migrants in the US, many after making the dangerous trek through Latin America to reach the US southern border."
— 2025 February 7, Esha Mitra, Aishwarya S Iyer and Ross Adkin, “‘Treated like criminals’: Shackling of Indians aboard 40-hour migrant flight sparks new outrage against Trump”, in CNN:
"Before that they had been a good deal on the move, trekking about after the white man, who was one of those rolling stones that keep going round after a soft job."
— 1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Beach of Falesá:
"Spock’s half-brother Cybok virtually brought Kirk and McCoy to their knees with a simple imposing of their own self-reflection. […] it gave the writers of Trek a generic bad guy that is best described as a eccentric-lunatic genius on a personal quest which consequently affects the universe on a catastrophic level."
— 1994 November 22, James A. Kimble, “Part V Revisited in Star Trek Generations”, in The Connector, volume XXII, number 11, Lowell, Mass.: University of Massachusetts Lowell, page 15, column 1:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The explorers will ____ through the difficult hot desert for two weeks.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The adventurers began a long and difficult ____ through the mountains to reach the remote and hidden village today.