You seem to lap up hiking.

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The Cambridge Dictionary defines "lap up" as "enjoy something very much". Would this be a good use of the phrase?

You seem to lap up hiking.
 
How good your sentence is depends entirely on the context it's meant to be in. But since you haven't provided any context, it doesn't work very well as an uncontextualised example sentence, no. What examples does the Cambridge Dictionary give?
 
We don't tend to use it for something we do. We use it for something someone else is doing and we're enjoying.

The comedian did several hilarious impressions of Ronald Dump and the crowd were lapping it up!
 
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