Roam vs Hike - What's the difference?
roam | hike |
To wander or travel freely and with no specific destination.
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(intransitive, computing, telecommunications) To use a network or service from different locations or devices.
To or wander over.
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A long walk.
An abrupt increase.
(American football) The snap of the ball to start a play.
A command to a dog sled team, given by a musher
To take a long walk for pleasure or exercise.
To unfairly or suddenly raise a price.
(American football) To snap the ball to start a play.
(nautical) To lean out to the windward side of a sailboat in order to counterbalance the effects of the wind on the sails.
To pull up or tug upwards sharply.
As verbs the difference between roam and hike
is that roam is to wander or travel freely and with no specific destination while hike is to take a long walk for pleasure or exercise.As a noun hike is
a long walk.roam
English
Verb
(en verb)- Wilshere had started as a left-footed right-winger, coming in off the flank, but he and Özil both had the licence to roam . Tomas Rosicky was not tied down to one spot either and, with Ramsey breaking forward as well as Olivier Giroud's considerable presence, Marseille were overwhelmed from the moment Bacary Sagna's first touch of the night sent Wilshere running clear.
- And now wild beasts came forth the woods to roam .
Obama goes troll-hunting, passage=According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.}}
Synonyms
* (wander freely) err, shrithe, wanderReferences
Anagrams
* * * * * ----hike
English
Noun
(en noun)- The tenants were not happy with the rent hike .
Verb
(hik)- Don't forget to bring the map when we go hiking tomorrow.
- She hiked her skirt up.