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

Mary Sorensen, who lives north of Atlanta, had traveled to the region on a spiritual pilgrimage to Mount Kailash, according to her son, Riley Wildeman. — ABC News, 31 Aug. 2026 The missing include hundreds of people from over a dozen countries who were in the region to work, visit the mountains or make a pilgrimage to a sacred peak. — Victoria Milko, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for pilgrimage

Recent Examples of Synonyms for pilgrimage

Verb

Jose Mourinho’s Real Madrid host one of his old sides Inter in the pick of the matches on Tuesday, with Aston Villa also travelling to Belgium to face Club Brugge and Manchester City visiting Porto.

— Nick Miller, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2026
Who can travel so far north – further north than any city in the US or Canada – to visit this one-of-a-kind place and this absolutely unique building that is like nothing that was ever built before?

— Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 6 Sep. 2026

Definition of travel

Noun

Fleury has since embarked on a coaching journey of more than 20 years, including stops at Sacred Heart as a defensive coordinator and Towson as a special teams coordinator.

— Andrew Destin, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
After a wait of almost 1,000 years and a journey of hundreds of miles, the Bayeux Tapestry 's big moment is here.

— ABC News, ABC News, 7 Sep. 2026

Definition of journey

Verb

Rather than taking the dry way out and heading home on the 4 train, we all got caught up in a more southerly impulse and trekked to our friends’ new place down in Battery Park City.

— Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 11 Sep. 2026
Daniel talked with dozens of health officials and trekked to Maine and Louisiana for this eye-opening story.

— O. Rose Broderick, STAT, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of trek

Noun

Newcastle are extremely excited about the Dutchman and Ross Wilson, the sporting director, even personally made scouting trips to watch the midfielder last year.

— Chris Waugh, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
That would be Tamra, Heather, Gina, and Carmella, who are taking a 24-hour trip to Solvang.

— Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of trip

Verb

In this tense, uneasy landscape, a separated couple, Natalie and Asher, reunite to take their child, Logan, on a trip to tour colleges in both territories.

— The New Yorker, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2026
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz visited Andøya Spaceport and toured Isar Aerospace’s launch pad in March.

— Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 6 Sep. 2026

Definition of tour

Noun

Her quest to win five Lead Actress in a Comedy trophies for all five seasons of Hacks is about to come to an end.

— Vulture Staff, Vulture, 15 Sep. 2026
Yet beyond the controversy over how Pluto should be classified, the quest to determine whether a hidden ninth planet may exist in our solar system continues — and some astronomers are more confident than ever that its discovery could be imminent.

— Micah Hanks, Space.com, 14 Sep. 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

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