Definition of: trek

(trek) v. trekked, trek·king v.i.
1. In South Africa, to travel by ox wagon.
2. To travel; migrate.
—v.t.
3. In South Africa, to draw (a vehicle or load): said of an ox.
—noun
1. An organized migration, as for the founding of a colony.
2. A journey; also, a stage in a journey.
3. The act of pulling.
—Great Trek The migration of the Boers of Cape Colony across the Vaal, Orange, and Drakenburg rivers (1835–38) which led to the formation of the Orange Free State and the South African Republic. Also spelled treck. [<Du. trekken draw, travel <MDu. trecken, intensive of trēken <OHG trechan draw]
—trek′ker noun