Trek vs Paddle - What's the difference?
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A slow or difficult journey.
(South Africa) A journey by ox wagon.
(South Africa) The of 1835-1837.
To make a slow or arduous journey.
To journey on foot, especially to hike through mountainous areas.
(South Africa) To travel by ox wagon.
A two-handed, single-bladed oar used to propel a canoe or a small boat.
A double-bladed oar used for kayaking.
Time spent on paddling.
A slat of a paddleboat's wheel.
A paddlewheel.
A blade of a waterwheel.
(video games, dated) A game controller with a round wheel used to control player movement along one axis of the video screen.
(British) A meandering walk or dabble through shallow water, especially at the seaside.
A kitchen utensil shaped like a paddle and used for mixing, beating etc.
A bat-shaped spanking implement
A ping-pong bat.
A flat limb of an aquatic animal, adapted for swimming.
In a sluice, a panel that controls the flow of water.
A group of inerts
A handheld defibrillation/cardioversion electrode
To propel something through water with a paddle, oar, hands, etc.
* L'Estrange
* (John Gay)
* 1884 : (Mark Twain), (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn), Chapter IX
To row a boat with less than one's full capacity.
To spank with a paddle.
To pat or stroke amorously or gently.
* Shakespeare
To tread upon; to trample.
(British) To walk or dabble playfully in shallow water, especially at the seaside.
To toddle
(archaic) To toy or caress using hands or fingers
Trek is a related term of paddle.
As a proper noun trek
is .As an adjective trek
is .As a noun paddle is
a two-handed, single-bladed oar used to propel a canoe or a small boat.As a verb paddle is
to propel something through water with a paddle, oar, hands, etc or paddle can be (british) to walk or dabble playfully in shallow water, especially at the seaside.trek
English
(wikipedia trek)Noun
(en noun)- We're planning on going on a trek up Kilimanjaro.
Verb
(trekk)paddle
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) padell (1407, "small spade"), from Medieval Latin padela, perhaps from (etyl) patella "pan, plate", the diminutive of patinaNoun
(en noun)- We had a nice paddle this morning.
- ''The paddle practically ousted the British cane as the spanker's attribute in the independent US
- ''A sea turtle's paddles make it swim almost as fast as land tortoises are slow
Derived terms
* paddler * paddleboat * paddle board * paddlewheel * paddle steamer * paddling * dog paddle * traffic paddleSee also
* oarVerb
- as the men were paddling for their lives
- while paddling ducks the standing lake desire
- Daytimes we paddled all over the island in the canoe
- to be paddling palms and pinching fingers.