trudge

noun

1. A tramp, i.e. a long and tiring walk.

   “The morning after the landslip, with rain still pouring down, it was an unpleasant trudge through deep mud to get there.”

verb

1. (intransitive)To walk wearily with heavy, slow steps.

   “2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)https://web.archive.org/web/20150212214621/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text This famous archaeological site marks the farthest limit of human migration out of Africa in the middle Stone Age—the outer edge of our knowledge of the cosmos. I trudge to the caves in a squall.”

2. (transitive)To trudge along or over a route etc.