trek

trek
    n 1: a journey by ox wagon (especially an organized migration by
         a group of settlers)
    2: any long and difficult trip
    v 1: journey on foot, especially in the mountains; "We spent the
         summer trekking in the foothills of the Himalayas"
    2: make a long and difficult journey; "They trekked towards the
       North Pole with sleds and skis"
    

Trek \Trek\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Trekked}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Trekking}.] [Written also {treck}.] [D. trekken. See
   {Track}, n.] [South Africa]
   1. To draw or haul a load, as oxen.
      [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

   2. To travel, esp. by ox wagon; to go from place to place; to
      migrate. [Chiefly South Africa]

            One of the motives which induced the Boers of 1836
            to trek out of the Colony.            --James Bryce.
      [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
    

Trek \Trek\, n. [Written also {treck}.] [D. Cf. {Track}, n.]
   The act of trekking; a drawing or a traveling; a journey; a
   migration. [Chiefly South Africa]

         To the north a trek was projected, and some years later
         was nearly carried out, for the occupation of the
         Mashonaland.                             --James Bryce.

   {Great Trek}, the great emigration of Boers from Cape Colony
      which began in 1836, and resulted in the founding of the
      South African Republic and Orange Free State.
      [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
    

70 Moby Thesaurus words for "trek":
      campaign, circuit, course, cruise, emigrate, emigration, excursion,
      expatriate, expatriation, expedition, fare, flight, flit,
      globe-trot, go abroad, go on safari, go overseas, grand tour,
      hit the trail, immigrate, immigration, in-migrate, in-migration,
      intermigrate, intermigration, jaunt, journey, junket,
      make a journey, make a pilgrimage, make a trip, migrate, migration,
      out-migrate, out-migration, outing, package tour, passage,
      peregrinate, peregrination, peregrinations, pilgrim, pilgrimage,
      pleasure trip, progress, range the world, remigrate, remigration,
      round trip, rubberneck, rubberneck tour, run, safari, sally, shoot,
      sight-see, stalk, swarm, swarming, take a trip, take the road,
      take wing, tour, transmigrate, transmigration, travels, trip, turn,
      voyage, wayfare