English > travel: 9 senses > verb 1, motionMeaning | change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically. |
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Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s; Something is ----ing PP; Somebody ----s PP |
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Model | They travel the countryside; They travel in the countryside |
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Examples | - "We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus"
- "news travelled fast"
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Synonyms | go, move, locomote |
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Caused by | travel, trip, jaunt | make a trip for pleasure |
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Entailed by | miss | fail to reach or get to |
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reach, make, attain, hit, arrive at, gain | Reach a destination / destination, either real or abstract |
steer | direct (oneself) somewhere |
Narrower | accompany | go or travel along with |
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advance, progress, pass on, move on, march on, go on | Move forward, also in the metaphorical sense |
angle | Move or proceed at an angle |
ascend, go up | Travel up, "We ascended the mountain" |
automobile | Travel in an automobile |
back | Travel backward |
bang | Move noisily |
beetle | fly or go in a manner resembling a beetle |
betake oneself | Displace oneself |
billow | Move with great difficulty |
bounce, jounce | Move up and down repeatedly |
breeze | To proceed quickly and easily |
caravan | Travel in a caravan / caravan |
career | Move headlong at high speed |
carry | Cover a certain distance or advance beyond |
circle | Move in circles |
circle | Travel around something |
circuit | make a circuit / circuit |
circulate | Move around freely |
come, come up | Move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody |
come | Cover a certain distance |
crawl, creep | Move slowly |
cruise | Travel at a moderate speed |
derail, jump | Run off or leave the rails |
descend, fall, go down, come down | Move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way |
do | Travel or traverse (a distance) |
drag | Move slowly and as if with great effort |
draw | Move or go steadily or gradually |
drive, motor | travel or be transported in a vehicle |
drive | Move by being propelled by a force |
ease | Move gently or carefully |
fall | Move in a specified direction |
fall | descend in free fall under the influence of gravity |
ferry | travel by ferry |
float, drift, be adrift, blow | Be in motion due to some air or water current |
float, swim | Be afloat either on or below a liquid surface and not sink to the bottom |
float | Move lightly, as if suspended |
flock | Move as a crowd or in a group |
fly, wing | Travel through the air |
fly | Be dispersed or disseminated |
follow | To travel behind, go after, come after |
follow, travel along | travel along a certain course |
forge, spurt, spirt | Move or act with a sudden increase / increase in speed or energy |
get around, get about | Move around |
ghost | Move like a ghost |
glide | Move smoothly and effortlessly |
go around, spread, circulate | Become widely known and passed on |
hiss, whoosh | Move with a whooshing sound |
hurtle | Move with or as if with a rushing / rushing sound |
island hop | Travel from one island to the next |
lance | Move quickly, as if by cutting one's way |
lurch | Move slowly and unsteadily |
outflank, go around | go around the flank of (an opposing army) |
pace | Go at a pace |
pan | make a sweeping movement |
pass | go across or through |
pass over, overfly | fly over |
play | Move or seem to move quickly, lightly, or irregularly |
plow, plough | Move in a way resembling that of a plow cutting into or going through the soil |
prance | spring forward on the hind legs |
precede, lead | Move ahead / ahead (of others) in time or space |
precess | Move in a gyrating fashion |
proceed, go forward, continue | Move ahead |
propagate | Travel through the air |
pursue, follow | Follow in or as if in pursuit |
push | Move strenuously and with effort |
raft | travel by raft in water |
repair, resort | Move, travel, or proceed toward some place |
retreat | Move away, as for privacy |
retrograde | Move in a direction contrary to the usual / usual one |
return | Go or come back to place, condition, or activity where one has been before |
ride, sit | Sit and travel on the back of animal, usually while controlling its motions |
ride | Move like a floating object |
ride | Sit on and control a vehicle |
rise, lift, arise, move up, go up, come up, uprise | Move upward |
roll, wander, swan, stray, tramp, roam, cast, ramble, rove, range, drift, vagabond | Move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment |
round | wind around |
run | Move about freely and without restraint, or act as if running around in an uncontrolled way |
run | travel rapidly, by any (unspecified) means |
rush, hotfoot, hasten, hie, speed, race, pelt along, rush along, cannonball along, bucket along, belt along, step on it | Move fast |
scramble | To move hurriedly |
seek | go to or towards |
shuttle | travel back and forth between two points |
sift | Move as if through a sieve |
ski | Move along on skis |
slice into, slice through | Move through a body or an object with a slicing motion |
slither, slide | To pass or move unobtrusively or smoothly |
snowshoe | Travel on snowshoes |
speed | Travel at an excessive or illegal velocity |
steamer, steam | travel by means of steam power |
step | shift or move by taking a step |
step, tread | put down or press the foot, place the foot |
step | Move with one's feet in a specific manner |
stray, err, drift | wander from a direct course or at random |
swap | Move (a piece of a program) into memory, in computer science |
swash | make violent, noisy movements |
swim | Travel through water |
swim | Move as if gliding through water |
swing | change direction with a swinging motion |
taxi | Travel slowly |
trail, shack | Move, proceed, or walk draggingly or slowly |
tram | travel by tram |
transfer, change | change from one vehicle or transportation line to another |
travel, journey | Travel upon or across |
travel | Undergo transportation as in a vehicle |
travel, move around | travel from place to place, as for the purpose of finding work, preaching, or acting as a judge |
travel by, pass by, surpass, go past, go by, pass | Move past |
travel purposefully | Travel volitionally and in a certain direction with a certain goal |
travel rapidly, speed, hurry, zip | Move very fast |
trundle | Move heavily |
turn, move around | Pass to the other side of |
walk | Use one's feet to advance |
walk, take the air | Take a walk |
weave, wind, thread, meander, wander | To move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course |
wend | direct one's course or way |
wheel, roll | Move along on or as if on wheels or a wheeled vehicle |
whine | Move with a whining sound |
whish | Move with a whishing sound |
whisk | Move quickly and nimbly |
whistle | Move with, or as with, a whistling sound |
withdraw, retreat, pull away, draw back, recede, pull back, retire, move back | pull back or move away or backward |
zigzag, crank | travel along a zigzag path |
zoom | Move with a low humming noise |
Opposite | stay in place | Be stationary |
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Similar to | move, displace | Cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense |
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Spanish | acudir, desplazarse, ir, moverse, mover, viajar |
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Catalan | acudir, anar, desplaçar-se, moure's, moure, viatjar |
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Nouns | travel | self-propelled movement |
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travel | a movement through space that changes the location of something |
traveler, traveller | a person who changes location |