as in traveled
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 trekked
The soccer gods looked down on Dick’s Sporting Goods Park and teased the hundreds of Colorado Springs Switchbacks fans who trekked up I-25 to Commerce City.
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Braidon Nourse, Denver Post, 30 Apr. 2026
The three took a family vacation to China in 2024 and trekked the Great Wall together.
—Stephanie Sengwe, PEOPLE, 30 Apr. 2026
David and Aaron trekked to Seoul in 2024 to watch the Padres open the season against the Dodgers.
—Ryan Finley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Apr. 2026
All the trembling, as Kimbangu touched the sick, alarmed European settlers and reassured the plantation workers who trekked to Nkamba in search of healing.
—Rodney Muhumuza, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2026
Agents trekked through muddy terrain in the dark and eventually found Medina curled up in a ball next to a tree.
—Alexandra Koch, FOXNews.com, 24 Mar. 2026
Jen Murphy has visited Costa Rica dozens of times and trekked the coast-to-coast El Camino Trail.
—Jen Murphy, Outside, 10 Mar. 2026
Alawites trekked for miles to the seashore, bringing home jugs of seawater to fashion salty dough for bread.
—Literary Hub, 4 Mar. 2026
In total, detectives believe that stolen U-Haul trekked between West Sacramento and Woodland at least five times last month – all in the early morning hours.
—Cecilio Padilla, CBS News, 27 Feb. 2026
Braidon Nourse, Denver Post, 30 Apr. 2026
The three took a family vacation to China in 2024 and trekked the Great Wall together.
—Stephanie Sengwe, PEOPLE, 30 Apr. 2026
David and Aaron trekked to Seoul in 2024 to watch the Padres open the season against the Dodgers.
—Ryan Finley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Apr. 2026
All the trembling, as Kimbangu touched the sick, alarmed European settlers and reassured the plantation workers who trekked to Nkamba in search of healing.
—Rodney Muhumuza, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2026
Agents trekked through muddy terrain in the dark and eventually found Medina curled up in a ball next to a tree.
—Alexandra Koch, FOXNews.com, 24 Mar. 2026
Jen Murphy has visited Costa Rica dozens of times and trekked the coast-to-coast El Camino Trail.
—Jen Murphy, Outside, 10 Mar. 2026
Alawites trekked for miles to the seashore, bringing home jugs of seawater to fashion salty dough for bread.
—Literary Hub, 4 Mar. 2026
In total, detectives believe that stolen U-Haul trekked between West Sacramento and Woodland at least five times last month – all in the early morning hours.
—Cecilio Padilla, CBS News, 27 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for trekked
Verb
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Shortly before the shooting, Vice President JD Vance's motorcade traveled through the area of the incident.—
Joey Garrison,
USA Today,
5 May 2026
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Like Turner, Church also travelled far beyond the shores of his homeland.—
Sebastian Smee,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
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The group journeyed to a gothic mansion in La Jolla and dressed as Marie Antoinette in extravagant rococo dresses.—
Maddie Connors,
Los Angeles Times,
4 May 2026
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But he’s journeyed to Lourdes and Our Lady of Guadalupe, both of which the Vatican has officially recognized as supernatural Marian apparitions.—
Denise Crosby,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Apr. 2026
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Scott Gordon, chief of water enforcement for EPA’s regional office at the time, toured the site in 2000 and said he was shocked by how the industrial water found its path into the river, sometimes through gullies cut by the flow.—
DYLAN JACKSON,
ABC News,
6 May 2026
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City Council Speaker Julie Menin toured the area after the incident.—
Alexa Herrera,
CBS News,
6 May 2026
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The back parking lot, once a nasty no man’s land where drunken customers wandered off to urinate, has recently been transformed into a performance space that has hosted small gigs including Duane Betts.—
Jimmy Jellinek,
SPIN,
27 Apr. 2026
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But, as Chen and Shrivastava wandered a Texas restaurant conference, a Dallas heating and air company called Rescue Air found them.—
Allie Garfinkle,
Fortune,
27 Apr. 2026
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“Trekked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trekked. Accessed 11 May. 2026.
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