as in pristine
not having been traveled over or through
the trackless desert is no place for unequipped, unprepared travelers
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Recent Examples of trackless
The annual winter holiday festival also features photos with Santa, the Brent Street Holiday Market, trackless train rides and more.
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Kirby Adams, Louisville Courier Journal, 12 Dec. 2025
Some believe that the name originated with Slavic soldiers who once attempted to march over the trackless range into Albania.
—Literary Hub, 22 Oct. 2025
The event included a trackless train, children’s games and activities with Brian Wismer Entertainment, magician Amazing Adamz, Chicago Bears mascot Staley, face painting and a mobile gaming truck.
—Pioneer Press, Chicago Tribune, 12 Aug. 2025
Kirby Adams, Louisville Courier Journal, 12 Dec. 2025
Some believe that the name originated with Slavic soldiers who once attempted to march over the trackless range into Albania.
—Literary Hub, 22 Oct. 2025
The event included a trackless train, children’s games and activities with Brian Wismer Entertainment, magician Amazing Adamz, Chicago Bears mascot Staley, face painting and a mobile gaming truck.
—Pioneer Press, Chicago Tribune, 12 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for trackless
Adjective
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The train passes through several pristine natural environments, including the Hudson River, the Adirondack foothills, and Lake Champlain.—
Lauren Dana Ellman,
Travel + Leisure,
8 Mar. 2026
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Renowned paleoanthropologist Ronald Clarke identified four tiny bones in the University of the Witwatersrand’s museum collection and went on to discover Little Foot’s nearly pristine fossil in the 1990s in the Sterkfontein Caves northwest of Johannesburg, South Africa.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
7 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Other neighborhoods remain mainly pathless, with some residents resistant to changing their community's streetscaping.—
Bridget Fogarty,
jsonline.com,
9 Apr. 2025
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There is a pleasure in the pathless woods.—
Leah Hall,
Country Living,
5 Jan. 2023
Adjective
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For some, a day trip by minibus and camel is more than enough desert – but the true adventurer will want to seek out the untrodden sands of southern Algeria.—
Henry Haselock,
TheWeek,
27 Feb. 2026
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The move to mirror the suffocation of fame and family name by making the show’s scope increasingly claustrophobic is not untrodden territory.—
Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
12 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Opening up the process has raised questions about attributing asteroid names to students whose future is still an untraveled road, however.—
Elisabetta Povoledo,
New York Times,
22 Mar. 2023
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Furthermore, much of the Sino-Russian border is remote and untraveled, making arms transfers difficult to detect.—
Kyle Mizokami,
Popular Mechanics,
23 Feb. 2023
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“Trackless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trackless. Accessed 10 Mar. 2026.
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