travel

About 34.86 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To be on a journey, often for pleasure or business and with luggage; to go from one place to another.

   John seems to spend as much time travelling as he does in the office.

2. verb To pass from one place to another; to move or transmit.

   Soundwaves can travel through water.

3. verb To move illegally by walking or running without dribbling the ball.
4. verb To travel throughout (a place).

   I’ve travelled the world.

5. verb To force to journey.
6. verb To labour; to travail.
7. noun The act of traveling; passage from place to place.

   I like travel, but it’s always too tiring.

8. noun A series of journeys.

   I’m off on my travels around France again.

Similar words

journey trip move jaunt locomotion locomote go change of location traveler tour

Often followed by

to and in by with through on time from

Word family

traveled traveling travelled travelling travels