Travel

travel
    n 1: the act of going from one place to another; "he enjoyed
         selling but he hated the travel" [syn: {travel},
         {traveling}, {travelling}]
    2: a movement through space that changes the location of
       something [syn: {change of location}, {travel}]
    3: self-propelled movement [syn: {locomotion}, {travel}]
    v 1: change location; move, travel, or proceed, also
         metaphorically; "How fast does your new car go?"; "We
         travelled from Rome to Naples by bus"; "The policemen went
         from door to door looking for the suspect"; "The soldiers
         moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before
         night fell"; "news travelled fast" [syn: {travel}, {go},
         {move}, {locomote}] [ant: {stay in place}]
    2: undertake a journey or trip [syn: {travel}, {journey}]
    3: make a trip for pleasure [syn: {travel}, {trip}, {jaunt}]
    4: travel upon or across; "travel the oceans" [syn: {travel},
       {journey}]
    5: undergo transportation as in a vehicle; "We travelled North
       on Rte. 508"
    6: travel from place to place, as for the purpose of finding
       work, preaching, or acting as a judge [syn: {travel}, {move
       around}]
    

Travel \Trav"el\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Traveled}or {Travelled};
   p. pr. & vb. n. {Traveling} or {Travelling}.] [Properly, to
   labor, and the same word as travail.]
   1. To labor; to travail. [Obsoles.] --Hooker.
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   2. To go or march on foot; to walk; as, to travel over the
      city, or through the streets.
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   3. To pass by riding, or in any manner, to a distant place,
      or to many places; to journey; as, a man travels for his
      health; he is traveling in California.
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   4. To pass; to go; to move.
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            Time travels in divers paces with divers persons.
                                                  --Shak.
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Travel \Trav"el\, v. t.
   1. To journey over; to traverse; as, to travel the continent.
      "I travel this profound." --Milton.
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   2. To force to journey. [R.]
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            They shall not be traveled forth of their own
            franchises.                           --Spenser.
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Travel \Trav"el\, n.
   1. The act of traveling, or journeying from place to place; a
      journey.
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            With long travel I am stiff and weary. --Shak.
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            His travels ended at his country seat. --Dryden.
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   2. pl. An account, by a traveler, of occurrences and
      observations during a journey; as, a book of travels; --
      often used as the title of a book; as, Travels in Italy.
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   3. (Mach.) The length of stroke of a reciprocating piece; as,
      the travel of a slide valve.
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   4. Labor; parturition; travail. [Obs.]
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210 Moby Thesaurus words for "travel":
      advance, advancement, advancing, ascend, associate, back, back up,
      budge, career, change, change place, circle, climb, clip,
      come along, come on, communication, commute, conduction, contagion,
      convection, course, cover, cover ground, cross, delivery,
      deportation, descend, diapedesis, diffusion, dissemination, do,
      ebb, excursions, expedition, expeditions, explore, export,
      exportation, expulsion, extradition, fare, fare forth, fetch, flit,
      flow, forward motion, forwardal, forwarding, fraternize,
      furtherance, furthering, gain ground, gait, gang, gather head,
      gather way, get ahead, get along, get over, globe-trotting, go,
      go ahead, go along, go around, go fast, go forward, go on, go over,
      go round, go sideways, go-ahead, gyrate, hang about, hang around,
      headway, hie, import, importation, interchange, journey,
      journeyings, journeys, junkets, lick, make good time,
      make head against, make headway, make progress,
      make progress against, make strides, make up leeway, march,
      measure, metastasis, metathesis, metempsychosis, migration, mount,
      move, move along, move forward, move on, move over,
      mutual transfer, odyssey, ongoing, onward course, osmosis,
      overpass, pace, pass, pass along, pass on, pass over, pass through,
      passage, passing over, patrol, perambulate, peregrinate,
      peregrinations, pererrate, perfusion, peripatetics, plunge, ply,
      proceed, process, progress, progression, progressiveness,
      promotion, push on, range, range over, rate, reconnoiter, regress,
      repair, retrogress, rise, roam, roll, roll on, rolling, rolling on,
      rotate, rove, run, sashay, scour, scour the country, scout, shift,
      sink, soar, socialize, spin, spread, spreading, stem, step,
      step forward, stir, stream, stride, subside, sweep, tour, touring,
      tourism, tours, track, transduction, transfer,
      transfer of property, transference, transfusion, transit,
      transition, translation, translocation, transmigration,
      transmigration of souls, transmission, transmittal, transmittance,
      transplacement, transplantation, transposal, transposition,
      travel over, travel through, travels, traverse, tread, trek,
      trekking, treks, trip, trips, voyage, voyagings, wanderings, wane,
      way, wayfare, wend, whirl