We give lower bounds on the maximum possible girth of an runiform, d-regular hypergraph with at most n vertices, using the definition of a hypergraph cycle due to Berge. These differ from the trivial upper bound by an absolute constant factor (viz., by a factor of between 3/2 + o(1) and 2 + o(1)). We also define a random r-uniform 'Cayley' hypergraph on the symmetric group S n which has girth Ω(n 1/3 ) with high probability, in contrast to random regular r-uniform hypergraphs, which have constant girth with positive probability.