Trek v. i.  [imp. & p. p. Trekked p. pr. & vb. n. Trekking.] [Written also treck.]  [South Africa]
 1. To draw or haul a load, as oxen.
 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.


 Trek, n. [Written also treck.]  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.

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 treck
      v : go trecking; "We trecked in the Himalayas"