Hide
Hide verb - To put into a hiding place.
Seek
Seek verb - To go in search of.
Usage example: Henry Hudson was set adrift by mutinous crewmen while seeking the Northwest Passage to the Pacific Ocean
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- The player instead spends the entire time evading an entire world of Demonic Spiders, or in a game of hide and seek with a single invincible enemy.
Source: Survival Horror -
Brick Joke: Ivy is outside trying to find Noah during a game of hide and seek, with a major rule being that neither can hide indoors.
Source: Film / The Village - They engage the other kids in high level games of tag and hide and seek, which teaches the kids ways to run and hide without telling them why they're learning them.
Source: Manga / The Promised Neverland
Cite this Source
Seek and Hide. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 16, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/hide/seek
Hide & Seek. N.p., 2016. Web. 16 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/hide/seek>.
Seek or Hide. 2016. Accessed August 16, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/hide/seek.
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