trek
verb (used without object)
to travel or migrate slowly or with difficulty, often through rough or unsettled territory.
were trekking
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past progressiveof trek.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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At Mountain Crossings, a hikers’ outfitting store on the Appalachian Trail near Georgia’s Blood Mountain, a handful of hikers were trekking up the mountain in the snow, employee Julia Leveille said Sunday.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 16, 2022
We were trekking around the country and I talked about a lot of stuff.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2016
Although many fans were trekking to Indio in hopes of revisiting the glory days of rock music, the acts they’d paid top dollar to see were still doing impressive business.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2016
It wasn’t hard to picture dinosaurs in the surrealistic setting that we were trekking through, with its layers of purple and green rock and oddly shaped boulders that seemed to have fallen from the sky.
From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2016
Soon the three of them were trekking past the Washington Memorial Chapel, Russell and Piper with their bag, Maniac with his satchel.
From "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli
