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senderista

hiker

noun sen-deh-REES-tah Rare
Travel & Places Movement

Origin: Derived from senda (path, trail) via senderismo (hiking).

Usage Note

Senderista is a common-gender noun — el senderista, la senderista — referring to someone who practises senderismo (trail hiking). It is specific to organised or recreational walking on marked paths rather than mountaineering. In Peru, Senderista (capitalised) historically denoted a member of Sendero Luminoso (the Shining Path guerrilla group), so context matters when reading Peruvian texts.

Examples

"Los senderistas salieron al amanecer."

Natural Translation

The hikers set out at dawn.

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