Using Description environment with cleveref

Question

Is there a way to use cleveref to reference the name of an item in a description environment?

For example, if I have

\begin{description}
    \item[TEST\label{test}] test
\end{description}

I would like to reference it through \cref{test} and for the text to be TEST.

Answer 1

Building on the discussion led in the preceding comments, here's a solution that employs the \hypertarget/\hyperlink mechanism of the hyperref package to create cross-references that show text strings rather than numbers.

The commands \hypertarget and \hyperlink both take 2 arguments. \hypertarget creates a target; the first argument becomes the internal name of the target, and the second determines what's shown in the document. \hyperlink creates a link to the target created by \hypertarget. The first arguments of \hypertarget and \hyperlink must coincide, while the second arguments needn't, as is also shown in the following MWE (minimum working example).

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[colorlinks,linkcolor=blue]{hyperref}

\begin{document}
\begin{description}
    \item[FOO] \dots
    \item[\hypertarget{list:test}{\textbf{TEST}}] \dots
    \item[BAR] \dots
\end{description}
As was demonstrated in the \hyperlink{list:test}{TEST} item of the preceding list, \dots
\end{document}