TRAVELLING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does travelling mean? 

• TRAVELLING (noun)
  The noun TRAVELLING has 1 sense:

1. the act of going from one place to another

  Familiarity information: TRAVELLING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRAVELLING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of going from one place to another

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

travel; traveling; travelling

Context example:

he enjoyed selling but he hated the travel

Hypernyms ("travelling" is a kind of...):

motion; move; movement (the act of changing location from one place to another)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "travelling"):

horseback riding; riding (travel by being carried on horseback)

commutation; commuting (the travel of a commuter)

seafaring; water travel (travel by water)

junketing (taking an excursion for pleasure)

on the road; on tour (travelling about)

staging (travel by stagecoach)

leg; stage (a section or portion of a journey or course)

journey; journeying (the act of traveling from one place to another)

air; air travel; aviation (travel via aircraft)

walk (the act of walking somewhere)

driving (the act of controlling and steering the movement of a vehicle or animal)

crossing (traveling across)

wayfaring (traveling (especially on foot))

roving; vagabondage; wandering (travelling about without any clear destination)

traversal; traverse (travel across)

peregrination (traveling or wandering around)

circumnavigation (traveling around something (by ship or plane))

Derivation:

travel (undertake a journey or trip)

 Context examples 

We were travelling faster, and heeled farther over.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I am a clerk, sir, travelling from Beaulieu.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They alighted out of the coach near a small foot-path in a field, and Glumdalclitch setting down my travelling box, I went out of it to walk.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

How could it be otherwise with such a travelling companion as he had at last got?

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

He, alone among men, could put a pack upon Buck’s back in the summer travelling.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

But I'll not keep you sitting up late to-night, said she; it is on the stroke of twelve now, and you have been travelling all day: you must feel tired.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Em'ly got to France, and took service to wait on travelling ladies at a inn in the port.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

They had a whole continent to themselves and they were travelling great distances at speed.

(Ancient DNA analysis unlocks secrets of Ice Age tribes in the Americas, University of Cambridge)

He went back to put his pack into shape for travelling.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

And so it is that we are travelling towards Galatz in an agony of expectation.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)