Thesaurus results for PILGRIMAGE

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verb

Definition of pilgrimage

as in to travel

to take a trip especially of some distance tourists pilgrimaging to all of the traditional destinations across Europe

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Recent Examples of pilgrimage

Verb

Nearly 100,000 visitors pilgrimage to the area annually to witness a forest canopy cloaked in orange-and-black wings. — Jen Murphy, Travel + Leisure, 10 Mar. 2026 Several hundred of them pilgrimage to Arizona each February for the I Heart Pluto Festival. — David Allan, CNN Money, 3 Mar. 2026

Noun

There will be an official reception attended by Iraq’s prime minister, senior government officials and religious leaders before the cortege travels to the Imam Ali Shrine, an important pilgrimage site for Shiite Muslims. — Xiaoqian Lin, CNN Money, 6 July 2026 Outside of Texas, a handful of workshops have also achieved near-pilgrimage status among ranchers, rodeo competitors, and collectors. — Jessica Chapel, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for pilgrimage

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Verb

More than 40 tall ships from 20 foreign countries participated, traveling through New York Harbor from near Sandy Hook, New Jersey, up to the George Washington Bridge.

— Nicole Jao, USA Today, 6 July 2026
Several Iraqi provinces announced official holidays to allow mourners to travel.

— Xiaoqian Lin, CNN Money, 6 July 2026

Definition of travel

Noun

Homer’s epic poem The Odyssey follows the incredible journey of King Odysseus back to his kingdom of Ithaca, plagued by mythical perils along the way.

— Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 13 July 2026
Second, extended breaks from work—ideally more than two months, with four to six months as the ideal—are necessary to undergo a deeper journey of self-exploration.

— DJ Didonna, Time, 13 July 2026

Definition of journey

Verb

Grandma, irrelevantly but convincingly, spoke of wars, blizzards and trekking barefoot to school.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 July 2026
Craggy and beautiful, with vast hilltop views of the sea, Favignana was where most of the Ithaca exteriors were filmed, which meant weeks shooting on a set that required the cast and crew to trek uphill through narrow paths for an hour every day.

— Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 14 July 2026

Definition of trek

Noun

The Herald could not independently verify communications between the airline and government officials, and the carrier has not publicly commented on the circumstances surrounding the aborted trip.

— Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 9 July 2026
Wells went missing on the 4th of July after going on a boat trip with his high school friends to the popular, undeveloped Horn Island, just south of Ocean Springs, Mississippi, according to officials and Crump.

— Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 9 July 2026

Definition of trip

Noun

During the premiere, White will welcome two teams of TV stars, sending them on a quest to find ‘90s-retro properties.

— McKinley Franklin, HollywoodReporter, 15 July 2026
The defending champions made Kansas City their base camp for the tournament as the team began its quest to become back to back champions for the first time since Brazil in 1958 and 1962.

— PJ Green July 13, Kansas City Star, 14 July 2026

Definition of quest

Verb

However, when her island's resources are threatened, Moana embraces her ancestors' voyaging heritage and heads out to sea to find Maui, deliver the heart of Te Fiti (which Maui stole back in the day) and save her people.

— Brian Truitt, USA Today, 9 July 2026
When a blight hits the island, the result of a curse that began when Maui stole a gem representing the heart of the goddess Te Fiti, Moana gets her quest and excuse to voyage — to find the missing Maui and force him to return the stone.

— Alison Willmore, Vulture, 8 July 2026

Definition of voyage

Noun

After a scientific odyssey, Wilsey is agonizingly close to realizing his goal.

— Damian Garde, STAT, 9 July 2026
Simón, who undertook a similar odyssey at the same age, never allows this delicate story to succumb to self-indulgence or an inflated sense of its own importance.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2026

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