What's the difference between stroll and trek?

Stroll


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To wander on foot; to ramble idly or leisurely; to rove.
  • (n.) A wandering on foot; an idle and leisurely walk; a ramble.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) George Clooney has strolled into one of the most bitter and longest-running controversies in the heritage world, saying it would be "very nice" if the British Museum sent the Parthenon Marbles back to Greece.
  • (2) For Manchester United this was a Saturday stroll that ended frantically, although the Premier League leaders' latest three points were made even sweeter by the return of their captain, Nemanja Vidic.
  • (3) Strolling around the perfectly formed FH training facility he laughs at the idea of one of these public spaces popping up in Britain.
  • (4) Just a short stroll from the start of this walk, the Norman Lockyer Observatory still holds two of his telescopes.
  • (5) I see a small group strolling along, a tall, handsome man at the centre.
  • (6) Around 100,000 Syrians live in Izmir, where until a few weeks ago when the EU-Turkey deal was put into effect, smugglers would stroll openly through the central square in the quarter of Basmane.
  • (7) The teams stroll out, Ivory Coast in their orange kit, Zambia wearing green tracksuit tops.
  • (8) Jason Puncheon is a lovely, careful passer of the ball and here he out-Cesc’ed Chelsea’s own midfield creator for long periods of the game, strolling about to great effect in his central playmaker role.
  • (9) Distance 1 mile (1.6km) Classification Gentle stroll Duration 1 hour 45 minutes Begins Salcombe Hill car park OS grid reference SY197889 Walk in a nutshell A mostly flat circuit around the summit of Salcombe Hill, which offers impressive views over the town of Sidmouth and, on a good day, as far as Portland Bill in Dorset.
  • (10) Not least when PSG aren’t just walking it in Ligue 1, they’re strolling, flaneur ing their way to another room-temperature domestic title, with seven league goals conceded away from home all season, territory and possession dominated each week.
  • (11) For a foodie reward, stroll to Rue Didot's row of boulangeries.
  • (12) I joined the Mayfair tour one Sunday afternoon, and for two and a half hours we strolled around looking at the offices of all the hedge funds and investment companies in the area.
  • (13) #rangers #kings #stanleycup June 12, 2014 2.56am BST Kings 1-2 Rangers, 4:22, 2nd period Williams sets up Stroll and he shoots wide of the net.
  • (14) Sometime after take-off, however, Pope Francis strolled to the back of the aircraft and gave them their answer.
  • (15) Those wanting to experience the concept of “shared space” and “naked streets” can stroll absentmindedly round any small town in Italy.
  • (16) Thankfully I only live a 10 minute stroll away from my office in central Bucharest.
  • (17) Brandon Belt stikes out, and then Gregor Blanco strolls to the plate.
  • (18) He strolls up, halts and strokes it into the bottom-right corner.
  • (19) Despite the lenses pressed against the glass, Yang Guang (his name means Sunshine) strolled around, his shoulders and hind quarters adopting the rolling gait of a prize fighter.
  • (20) A short stroll from Walker’s Point, where the ancestral estate of the Bush dynasty juts out commandingly into the Atlantic ocean, there is a political campaign slogan in urgent need of fresh clarification.

Trek


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I called it following the Star Trek Non-Interference Directive.
  • (2) Later this month sees the release in the US of Star Trek Beyond – Yelchin’s most high-profile movie to be released posthumously.
  • (3) We are saying enough is enough.” Hundreds of protesters appeared to have joined the march, carrying banners that said “adalet” or “justice” as they set out on the 280 mile (450km) trek that will take them to Maltepe prison, where Enis Berberoğlu has been incarcerated.
  • (4) His greatest passion on the trek up, apart from finding a 3G signal and playing rap music from a speaker on the back of his pack, was playing Tigers and Goats, a local version of chess, taking on all-comers – climbers, Sherpas, trekkers, random elderly porters passing through the lodges.
  • (5) The Campbell family has been breeding ponies in Glenshiel for more than 100 years and now runs a small pony trekking centre offering one-hour treks along the pebbly shores of Loch Duich and through the Ratagan forest as well as all-day trail rides up into the hills for the more adventurous.
  • (6) Any future movie will have to fit into a schedule that includes future Star Trek instalments for Pegg and Wright's long-gestating Ant Man movie for Marvel.
  • (7) Hemsworth cut his chops on Home And Away before quitting in 2007, moving to LA and almost immediately being cast as Kirk's doomed dad in JJ Abrams 's Star Trek.
  • (8) US supreme court justices spar over strictest abortion law in the nation Read more Delta has been sending its patients on this trek for a week – ever since the fifth circuit court of appeals put on hold a lower court ruling that would have allowed the clinic to remain open.
  • (9) In a study of 17 subjects plasma-thyroxine-binding globulin and plasma thyroxine concentrations rose during a high altitude trek.
  • (10) The next day, we were processed, and we could begin our trek through Europe.
  • (11) It’s a bit of a trek to get there: a few kilometres drive along a dirt road and then a short walk, with arrows painted on stones.
  • (12) Her body has now been brought to Kathmandu from the mountain,” said Phu Tenzi Sherpa of the Seven Summit Treks, which organised her expedition.
  • (13) It feels like a good jumping off point for a hike, or a pony trek.
  • (14) Could the typical journey of the modern pint – a week-long trek from cow to fridge via tankers, processing plants, distribution hubs and supermarkets – be replaced by a bucolic idyll of farmers milking and bottling before delivering, all within 12 hours, as Our Cow Molly does?
  • (15) At least director JJ Abrams had a sense of humour about the hype machine when he teased a "sneak peek" of a scanty three frames of Star Trek Into Darkness on Conan O'Brien.
  • (16) That meant going on yet another three-bus trek to the official records office in a different part of town.
  • (17) By focusing on Spock and Kirk as novices finding their footing, and putting their gut-vs-logic dynamic at the heart of the film, Abrams gives non-followers plenty to hang on to, but also pays homage to familiar Trek tropes: Bones says: "I'm a doctor, not a physicist!
  • (18) I was trying to make a movie, not trying to make a Trek movie."
  • (19) His Star Trek reboots are dispiriting: the quirky and beloved sci-fi franchise pureed into stimulating but unremarkable blockbuster entertainment, distinguished mainly by caricatures of iconic characters that are more branding than interpretation.
  • (20) This gaunt, haunting visage (which, in the story, turned out to belong to a deliberately frightening dummy) appeared in Star Trek's end credits almost every week, and was guaranteed to scare the shit out of me whenever it did so.