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journey

Roget category 266

2. Words relating to space
2.4. Motion
›› 2.4.1. Motion in general

#266. [Locomotion by land.] Journey

noun

traveltraveling etc. v.. wayfaring, campaigning.
journey, excursion, expedition, tour, trip, grand tour, circuit, peregrination, discursion, ramble, pilgrimage, hajj, trek, course, ambulation, march, walk, promenade, constitutional, stroll, saunter, tramp, jog trot, turn, stalk, perambulationnoctambulation, noctambulismsomnambulismouting, ride, drive, airing, jaunt.
equitation, horsemanship, riding, manege [Fr.], ride and tiebasophobia.
roving, vagrancy, pererrationmarching and countermarchingnomadismvagabondism, vagabondagehoboism [U.S.]gaddingflit, flitting, migrationemigration, immigration, demigration, intermigrationwanderlust.
plan, itinerary, guidehandbook, guidebook, road bookBaedeker, Bradshaw, Murraymap, road map, transportation guide, subway map.
procession, cavalcade, caravan, file, cortege, column.
[Organs and instruments of locomotion] vehicle etc. 272automobile, train, bus, airplane, plane, autobus, omnibus, subway, motorbike, dirt bike, off-road vehicle, van, minivan, motor scooter, trolley, locomotivelegs, feet, pegs, pins, trotters.
traveler etc. 268.
depot [U.S.], railway station, station.

verb

travel, journey, coursetake a journey, go a journeytake a walk, go out for walk etc. n. — have a runtake the air.
flit, take wingmigrate, emigratetrekrove, prowl, roam, range, patrol, pace up and down, traverse scour the country, traverse the countryperagratecircumambulate, perambulatenomadize, wander, ramble, stroll, saunter, hover, go one's rounds, stragglegad, gad aboutexpatiate.
walk, march, step, tread, pace, plod, wend, go by shank's marepromenadetrudge, trampstalk, stride, straddle, strut, foot it, hoof it, stump, bundle, bowl along, toddlepaddletread a path.
take horse, ride, drive, trot, amble, canter, prance, fisk, frisk, caracoler, caracolegallop etc. (move quickly) 274.
[start riding] embark, board, set out, hit the road, get going, get underway.
peg on, jog on, wag on, shuffle onstir one's stumpsbend one's steps, bend one's coursemake one's way, find one's way, wend one's way, pick one's way, pick one's way, thread one's way, plow one's wayslide, glide, coast, skim, skatemarch in procession, file on, defile.
go to, repair to, resort to, hie to, betake oneself to.

adjective

traveling etc. v. — ambulatory, itinerant, peripatetic, roving, rambling, gadding, discursive, vagrant, migratory, monadiccircumforanean, circumforaneousnoctivagrant, mundivagrantlocomotive.
wayfaring, wayworntravel-stained.

adverb

on foot, on horseback, on Shanks's mareby the Marrowbone stagein transitu [Lat.] etc. 270en route etc. 282.

interjection

come along!,

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