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

Parish Killian was traveling with his son in a Jeep Compass when he was shot, officials say. — Mark Price july 17, Charlotte Observer, 17 July 2026

Related Stories Alemán is the first human in history to have completed the Triple Grand Slam of Travel, visiting all 193 countries recognized by the United Nations, trekking to both the North and South Poles and traveling to space. — Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 17 July 2026

Phrases Containing traveling

• traveling bag