go to, repair to, resort to, hie to, betake oneself to.
Adj. traveling &c. v.; ambulatory, itinerant, peripatetic, roving,
rambling, gadding, discursive, vagrant, migratory, monadic; circumforanean[obs3], circumforaneous[obs3]; noctivagrant[obs3], mundivagrant; locomotive.
wayfaring, wayworn; travel-stained.
Adv. on foot, on horseback, on Shanks’s mare; by the Marrowbone stage,
in transitu &c. 270[Lat]; en route &c. 282.
Int. come along!
#267. [Locomotion by
water, or air.] Navigation. — N. navigation;
aquatics; boating, yachting; ship &c. 273; oar, paddle,
screw, sail, canvas, aileron.
natation[obs3], swimming;
fin, flipper, fish’s tail.
aerostation[obs3], aerostatics[obs3],
aeronautics; balloonery[obs3];
balloon &c. 273; ballooning, aviation, airmanship;
flying, flight, volitation[obs3]; wing, pinion; rocketry,
space travel, astronautics, orbital mechanics, orbiting.
voyage, sail, cruise,
passage, circumnavigation, periplus[obs3];
headway, sternway, leeway; fairway.
mariner &c. 269.
flight, trip; shuttle,
run, airlift.
V. sail; put to sea
&c. (depart) 293; take ship, get under way; set
sail, spread sail, spread canvas; gather way, have
way on; make sail, carry sail; plow the waves, plow
the deep, plow the main, plow the ocean; walk the
waters.
navigate, warp, luff[obs3],
scud, boom, kedge; drift, course, cruise,
coast; hug the shore, hug the land; circumnavigate.
ply the oar, row, paddle,
pull, scull, punt, steam.
swim, float; buffet
the waves, ride the storm, skim, effleurer[Fr],
dive, wade.
fly, be wafted, hover,
soar, flutter, jet, orbit, rocket; take wing,
take a flight, take off, ascend, blast off, land,
alight; wing one’s flight, wing one’s
way; aviate; parachute, jump, glide.
Adj. sailing &c. v.;
volant[obs3], aerostatic[obs3]; seafaring,
nautical, maritime, naval; seagoing, coasting; afloat;
navigable; aerial, aeronautic; grallatory[obs3].
Adv. under way, under
sail, under canvas, under steam; on the wing, in
flight, in orbit.
Phr. bon voyage; “spread
the thin oar and catch the driving gale”
[Pope].
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#268. Traveler.
— N. traveler, wayfarer, voyager, itinerant,
passenger, commuter.
tourist, excursionist,
explorer, adventurer, mountaineer, hiker,
backpacker, Alpine Club; peregrinator[obs3], wanderer,
rover, straggler, rambler; bird of passage; gadabout,
gadling[obs3]; vagrant, scatterling[obs3], landloper[obs3],
waifs and estrays[obs3], wastrel, foundling; loafer;
tramp, tramper; vagabond, nomad, Bohemian, gypsy,
Arab[obs3], Wandering Jew, Hadji, pilgrim, palmer;
peripatetic; somnambulist, emigrant, fugitive, refugee;


