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travel

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of travel

often travels plural a going from one place to another usually of some distance
  • In all his travels he never met pleasanter people than he had in that village.
Synonyms of travel

expedition, journey, passage, peregrination, trek, trip
Words Related to travel

commute, errand, excursion, flight, hop, jaunt, junket, outing, sally, sortie, tour

cruise, sail, voyage

drive, ride, spin

grand tour, odyssey, pilgrimage, progress, quest, safari

hike, slog, tramp, walk

travel

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of travel

1 to take a trip especially of some distance
  • The couple loves to travel and has been to 34 countries.
Synonyms of travel

journey, peregrinate, pilgrimage, tour, trek, voyage
Words Related to travel

gallivant (also galavant), hop, jaunt, knock (about), perambulate, ramble, roam, rove, traipse, wander

migrate, road-trip

bus, cab, coach, cruise, drive, fly, gig, jet, motor, navigate, ride, roll, sail, trundle

barnstorm
2 to make one's way through, across, or over
  • We will travel the river for a while and then continue on land.
Synonyms of travel

course, cover, cross, cut (across), follow, go, navigate, pass (over), perambulate, peregrinate, proceed (along), track, transit, traverse
Words Related to travel

hike, traipse, tramp, tread, walk

ride, run

crisscross
3 to proceed or move quickly
  • That racehorse can definitely travel.
Synonyms of travel

barrel, belt, blast, blaze, blow, bolt, bowl, breeze, bundle, bustle, buzz, cannonball, careen, career, chase, course, dash, drive, fly, hare, hasten, hie, highball, hotfoot (it), hump, hurl, hurry, hurtle, hustle, jet, jump, motor, nip, pelt, race, ram, rip, rocket, run, rush, rustle, scoot, scurry, scuttle, shoot, speed, step, tear, trot, whirl, whisk, zip, zoom
Words Related to travel

dart, flit, scamper, scud, scuffle

stampede, streak, whiz (or whizz)

gallop, jog, sprint

accelerate, quicken, step out

catch up, fast-forward, outpace, outrun, outstrip, overtake
Phrases Synonymous with travel

beat it, get a move on, make tracks, shake a leg, step on it
Near Antonyms of travel

dally, dawdle, dillydally, drag, hang (around or out), lag, linger, loiter, poke, tarry

amble, lumber, plod, saunter, shuffle, stroll

decelerate, slow (down or up)
Antonyms of travel

crawl, creep, poke
4 to come or be together as friends
  • He traveled with a fast crowd when he was in college.
Synonyms of travel

associate, chum, company, consociate, consort, fraternize, hang (around or out), hobnob, hook up, mess around, pal (around), run, sort
Words Related to travel

affiliate, ally, attach, band, bond, club, collaborate, collude, confederate, conjoin, connect, cooperate, couple, gang, get along, get on, group, interrelate, join, knot, league, link, mingle, mix, rally, relate, side, socialize, team, tie, wed

befriend, friend
Phrases Synonymous with travel

be friends with, fall in with, keep company (with), rub elbows (with) or rub shoulders (with) , take up with
Near Antonyms of travel

avoid, cold-shoulder, shun, snub

alienate, estrange

break up, disband, disperse, split (up)

disjoin, dissociate, disunite, divorce, sever, split, sunder

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