Hike vs. Tramp — What's the Difference?

To go on an extended walk for pleasure or exercise, especially in a natural setting.

A tramp is a long-term homeless person who travels from place to place as a vagrant, traditionally walking all year round.

To rise, especially to rise upward out of place

Walk heavily or noisily

To travel over on foot for pleasure or exercise

A person who travels from place to place on foot in search of work or as a vagrant or beggar.

To increase or raise in amount, especially abruptly

The sound of heavy steps

To pull or raise with a sudden motion; hitch

A long walk, typically a tiring one

(Football) To snap (the ball).

A cargo vessel that carries goods between many different ports rather than sailing a fixed route

A long walk or march

A woman who has many casual sexual encounters or relationships.

An often abrupt increase or rise

A metal plate protecting the sole of a boot used for digging.

(Football) See snap.

To walk with a firm, heavy step; trudge.

A long walk, usually for pleasure or exercise.

To travel on foot; hike.

An abrupt increase.

To wander about aimlessly.

(American football) The snap of the ball to start a play.

To traverse on foot

A sharp upward tug to raise something.

To tread down; trample

To take a long walk for pleasure or exercise.

A heavy footfall.

To unfairly or suddenly raise a price.

The sound produced by heavy walking or marching.

(American football) To snap the ball to start a play.

A walking trip; a hike.

(nautical) To lean out to the windward side of a sailboat in order to counterbalance the effects of the wind on the sails.

One who travels aimlessly about on foot, doing odd jobs or begging for a living; a vagrant.

To pull up or tug upwards sharply.

A prostitute.

Let's go; get moving. A command to a dog sled team, given by a musher.

A person regarded as promiscuous.

To move with a swing, toss, throw, jerk, or the like.

(Nautical) A tramp steamer.

To raise with a quick movement.

A metal plate attached to the sole of a shoe for protection, as when spading ground.

To raise (a price) quickly or significantly in a single step.

A homeless person; a vagabond.

To pass (the ball) from the center to the quarterback at the start of the play; to snap (the ball).

(pejorative) A disreputable, promiscuous woman; a slut.

To hike one's self; specif., to go with exertion or effort; to tramp; to march laboriously.

Any ship which does not have a fixed schedule or published ports of call.

To take a long walk, especially for pleasure or exercise.

A long walk, possibly of more than one day, in a scenic or wilderness area.

The act of hiking.

Clipping of trampoline, especially a very small one.

A long walk usually for exercise or pleasure or exercise; a tramp; a march.

Of objects, stray and intrusive and unwanted

An increase in cost, rate, etc.; as, there was a dramatic hike in gasoline prices; a hike in the interest rates.

A metal plate worn by diggers under the hollow of the foot to save the shoe.

The amount a salary is increased; as, he got a wage hike.

To walk with heavy footsteps.

A long walk usually for exercise or pleasure

To walk for a long time (usually through difficult terrain).

An increase in cost;

To hitchhike.

The amount a salary is increased;

(transitive) To tread upon forcibly and repeatedly; to trample.

Increase;

(transitive) To travel or wander through.

Walk a long way, as for pleasure or physical exercise;

To cleanse, as clothes, by treading upon them in water.

To tread upon forcibly and repeatedly; to trample.

To travel or wander through; as, to tramp the country.

To cleanse, as clothes, by treading upon them in water.

To travel; to wander; to stroll.

A foot journey or excursion; as, to go on a tramp; a long tramp.

A foot traveler; a tramper; often used in a bad sense for a vagrant or wandering vagabond.

The sound of the foot, or of feet, on the earth, as in marching.

A tool for trimming hedges.

A plate of iron worn to protect the sole of the foot, or the shoe, when digging with a spade.

A disreputable vagrant;

A person who engages freely in promiscuous sex

A foot traveler; someone who goes on an extended walk (for pleasure)

A heavy footfall;

A commercial steamer for hire; one having no regular schedule

A long walk usually for exercise or pleasure

Travel on on foot, especially on a walking expedition;

Walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud;

Cross on foot;

Move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment;