traversals

noun

plural of traversal
as in traverses

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  1. trips
  2. travels
  3. expeditions
  4. treks
  5. tramps
  6. promenades
Noun
  • Conversations ranged from futuristic descriptions of everyday flying car trips to the ongoing struggles over funding for electric transit buses.
    — Madison Smalstig, Sacbee.com, 21 Aug. 2026
  • UMass needs some kind of momentum after an 0-12 season last year, and Sacramento State will make a whole lot of trips from California to the Midwest after its surprising FBS jump.
    — Chris Vannini, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of trips
Noun
  • The latter recounts his travels to the island of Utopia and outlines its customs, which contrast sharply with common practice in England.
    — Carline Tromp, The Dial, 18 Aug. 2026
  • Memoir of a Hindu soldier Sitaram Pande, a soldier in the Bengal Army of the British East India Company, wrote a memoir about his travels and time in military service.
    — Aishwarya Lakshmi, The Conversation, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of travels
Noun
  • Mars expeditions will last even longer — months, years and possibly entire lifetimes if SpaceX CEO Elon Musk achieves his goal of building a city on the red planet.
    — Marcia Dunn, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2026
  • In the decades since, millions of dollars have been poured into expeditions that have taken researchers from remote islands to the depths of the Pacific Ocean, including in recent years.
    — Christopher Cann, USA Today, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of expeditions
Noun
  • This summer, the actress and entrepreneur dropped her second season of Solo Traveling with Tracee Ellis Ross, in which fans followed her on treks through Australia, Switzerland and Thailand.
    — Jackie Fields, PEOPLE, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Popular treks include summit Mount Kinabalu, a 4,095-meter (13,435-foot) mountain in Borneo, or week-long treks in the jungles of Gunung Tahan, home to the highest point in pensinular Malaysia, the 2,187-meter (7,175-foot) Mount Tahan.
    — Jack Guy, CNN Money, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of treks
Noun
  • The scene inspired future comedy gags showing drifters and tramps losing their pants to dogs chasing them.
    — Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Told in a lingua franca of philosophy and academic jargon, Lucky’s speech has something to do with the collapse of reason and logic, and the futility of human progress, which is ultimately what tramps Estragon (Reeves) and Vladimir (Winter) are up against, too.
    — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 17 Dec. 2025
Definition of tramps
Noun
  • Take your time admiring the pristine yachts on the glistening blue water before directing your attention to the posh promenades of Calle Ribera and Muelle Ribera.
    — Jennifer Fernández Solano, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026
  • An odd couple—one a goblin squeezed into an improbable trench-coat onesie, a fedora, and high heels—promenades down a steep incline while other strollers come and go.
    — Jeremy Lybarger, Artforum, 2 June 2026
Definition of promenades
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