Synonyms of traveling

traveling 1 of 2

adjective

variants or travelling

as in roaming

Related Words

• roaming
• nomadic
• wandering
• itinerant
• ranging
• roving
• peripatetic
• wayfaring
• tramp
• vagabond
• vagrant
• peregrine
• migrant
• migratory
• errant
• mobile
• walking
• fugitive
• ambulatory
• strolling
• drifting
• meandering
• traipsing
• gallivanting
• ambulant
• sauntering
• rambling
• gadabout
• footloose
• fiddle-footed

Dissimilar Words

• resident
• stationary
• fixed
• nonmigrant
• settled
• immobile
• nonmigratory
• established
• fast
• sedentary
• set
• rooted

traveling

2 of 2

verb

variants or travelling

present participle of travel

1

as in touring

to take a trip especially of some distance

the couple loves to travel and has been to 34 countries

Synonyms & Similar Words

• touring
• journeying
• trekking
• voyaging
• wandering
• tripping
• roaming
• sailing
• migrating
• flying
• riding
• pilgrimaging
• cruising
• peregrinating
• hopping
• driving
• jaunting
• roving
• gallivanting
• traipsing
• knocking (about)
• navigating
• perambulating
• rambling
• road-tripping
• motoring
• coaching
• gigging
• trundling
• busing
• jetting
• cabbing
• barnstorming
• rolling

2

as in traversing

to make one's way through, across, or over

will travel the river for a while and then continue on land

Synonyms & Similar Words

• traversing
• crossing
• walking
• following
• navigating
• covering
• tracking
• transiting
• riding
• hiking
• cutting (across)
• passing (over)
• going
• proceeding (along)
• coursing
• peregrinating
• perambulating
• treading
• tramping
• traipsing
• running
• crisscrossing

3

as in flying

to proceed or move quickly

that racehorse can definitely travel

Synonyms & Similar Words

• flying
• driving
• racing
• speeding
• hurrying
• rushing
• trotting
• scurrying
• zipping
• chasing
• running
• jumping
• scooting
• buzzing
• blowing
• stepping
• darting
• dashing
• blasting
• zooming
• shooting
• bowling
• tearing
• jogging
• scuttling
• ripping
• hustling
• whirling
• ramming
• motoring
• blazing
• hurling
• whisking
• bolting
• jetting
• barreling
• hurtling
• careening
• bustling
• humping
• breezing
• hastening
• haring
• careering
• bundling
• rustling
• rocketing
• cracking (on)
• coursing
• pelting
• galloping
• nipping
• beating it
• bombing
• belting
• hying
• highballing
• cannonballing
• flitting
• stepping on it
• getting a move on
• making tracks
• shaking a leg
• scampering
• sprinting
• accelerating
• whizzing
• scuffling
• hotfooting (it)
• streaking
• scudding
• stampeding
• overtaking
• outrunning
• beetling
• stepping out
• quickening
• outpacing
• outstripping
• catching up
• beelining
• fast-forwarding
• arrowing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• crawling
• creeping
• poking
• dragging
• hanging (around or out)
• lingering
• lagging
• poking
• strolling
• loitering
• dawdling
• shuffling
• sauntering
• ambling
• dallying
• plodding
• lumbering
• tarrying
• decelerating
• slowing (down or up)
• dillydallying

4

as in running

to come or be together as friends

he traveled with a fast crowd when he was in college

Synonyms & Similar Words

• running
• connecting
• associating
• collaborating
• mixing
• joining
• mingling
• bonding
• relating
• befriending
• hobnobbing
• fraternizing
• sorting
• cooperating
• consorting
• hanging (around or out)
• chumming
• rubbing elbows (with)
• keeping company (with)
• messing around
• rubbing shoulders (with)
• taking up with
• socializing
• companying
• hooking up
• falling in with
• consociating
• rallying
• being friends with
• clubbing
• tying
• palling (around)
• wedding
• grouping
• teaming
• coupling
• linking
• attaching
• allying
• friending
• affiliating
• getting along
• leaguing
• interrelating
• knotting
• siding
• banding
• confederating
• getting on
• ganging
• colluding
• conjoining

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• avoiding
• shunning
• snubbing
• alienating
• dispersing
• estranging
• splitting
• splitting (up)
• disbanding
• breaking up
• divorcing
• cold-shouldering
• dissociating
• severing
• sundering
• disjoining
• disuniting

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of traveling

Adjective

But baby apparently got the non-traveling alleles from both parents, and therefore is not a time traveler. — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 23 Nov. 2021

As more states ease their indoor dining restrictions and the CDC has given the all-clear (for the most part) to the fully vaccinated for both traveling and small gatherings, restaurants are starting to feel alive again. — Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 13 Aug. 2021

Verb

While the Snowballs look for a permanent home stadium, the traveling circuit so far has taken them as far as Huntingburg, Indiana; Clinton, Iowa; and downstate Normal and Peoria. — Chris Placek, Chicago Tribune, 7 Aug. 2026

His grueling schedule included traveling with presidents to all 50 states and to nearly 60 countries. — Martha Ross, Mercury News, 7 Aug. 2026

Phrases Containing traveling

• traveling bag