| adventure | | |
| n. (act) | 1. adventure, dangerous undertaking, escapade, risky venture | a wild and exciting undertaking (not necessarily lawful). |
| ~ project, task, undertaking, labor | any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted.; "he prepared for great undertakings" |
| v. (social) | 2. adventure, chance, gamble, hazard, risk, run a risk, take a chance, take chances | take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome.; "When you buy these stocks you are gambling" |
| ~ attempt, essay, try, assay, seek | make an effort or attempt.; "He tried to shake off his fears"; "The infant had essayed a few wobbly steps"; "The police attempted to stop the thief"; "He sought to improve himself"; "She always seeks to do good in the world" |
| ~ go for broke | risk everything in one big effort.; "the cyclist went for broke at the end of the race" |
| ~ luck it, luck through | act by relying on one's luck. |
| v. (social) | 3. adventure, hazard, jeopardize, stake, venture | put at risk.; "I will stake my good reputation for this" |
| ~ lay on the line, put on the line, risk | expose to a chance of loss or damage.; "We risked losing a lot of money in this venture"; "Why risk your life?"; "She laid her job on the line when she told the boss that he was wrong" |
| peregrination | | |
| n. (act) | 1. peregrination | traveling or wandering around. |
| ~ travel, traveling, travelling | the act of going from one place to another.; "he enjoyed selling but he hated the travel" |
| wandering | | |
| n. (act) | 1. roving, vagabondage, wandering | travelling about without any clear destination.; "she followed him in his wanderings and looked after him" |
| ~ travel, traveling, travelling | the act of going from one place to another.; "he enjoyed selling but he hated the travel" |
| ~ drifting | aimless wandering from place to place. |
| adj. | 2. mobile, nomadic, peregrine, roving, wandering | migratory.; "a restless mobile society"; "the nomadic habits of the Bedouins"; "believed the profession of a peregrine typist would have a happy future"; "wandering tribes" |
| ~ unsettled | not settled or established.; "an unsettled lifestyle" |
| adj. | 3. meandering, rambling, wandering, winding | of a path e.g..; "meandering streams"; "rambling forest paths"; "the river followed its wandering course"; "a winding country road" |
| ~ indirect | not direct in spatial dimension; not leading by a straight line or course to a destination.; "sometimes taking an indirect path saves time"; "you must take an indirect course in sailing" |
| adj. | 4. erratic, planetary, wandering | having no fixed course.; "an erratic comet"; "his life followed a wandering course"; "a planetary vagabond" |
| ~ unsettled | not settled or established.; "an unsettled lifestyle" |
| tramp | | |
| n. (person) | 1. bum, hobo, tramp | a disreputable vagrant.; "a homeless tramp"; "he tried to help the really down-and-out bums" |
| ~ dosser, street person | someone who sleeps in any convenient place. |
| ~ drifter, vagrant, vagabond, floater | a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support. |
| n. (person) | 2. swinger, tramp | a person who engages freely in promiscuous sex. |
| ~ debauchee, libertine, rounder | a dissolute person; usually a man who is morally unrestrained. |
| n. (person) | 3. hiker, tramp, tramper | a foot traveler; someone who goes on an extended walk (for pleasure). |
| ~ backpacker, packer | a hiker who wears a backpack. |
| ~ pedestrian, footer, walker | a person who travels by foot. |
| n. (event) | 4. tramp | a heavy footfall.; "the tramp of military boots" |
| ~ footfall, footstep, step | the sound of a step of someone walking.; "he heard footsteps on the porch" |
| n. (artifact) | 5. tramp, tramp steamer | a commercial steamer for hire; one having no regular schedule. |
| ~ steamship, steamer | a ship powered by one or more steam engines. |
| n. (act) | 6. hike, hiking, tramp | a long walk usually for exercise or pleasure.; "she enjoys a hike in her spare time" |
| ~ walk | the act of walking somewhere.; "he took a walk after lunch" |
| ~ trudge | a long difficult walk. |
| v. (motion) | 7. tramp | travel on foot, especially on a walking expedition.; "We went tramping about the state of Colorado" |
| ~ athletics, sport | an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition. |
| ~ hike | walk a long way, as for pleasure or physical exercise.; "We were hiking in Colorado"; "hike the Rockies" |
| v. (motion) | 8. footslog, pad, plod, slog, tramp, trudge | walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud.; "Mules plodded in a circle around a grindstone" |
| ~ walk | use one's feet to advance; advance by steps.; "Walk, don't run!"; "We walked instead of driving"; "She walks with a slight limp"; "The patient cannot walk yet"; "Walk over to the cabinet" |
| ~ squish, slop, slosh, splash, splosh, squelch | walk through mud or mire.; "We had to splosh across the wet meadow" |
| v. (motion) | 9. tramp | cross on foot.; "We had to tramp the creeks" |
| ~ cross, cut across, cut through, get over, traverse, get across, pass over, track, cover | travel across or pass over.; "The caravan covered almost 100 miles each day" |
| v. (motion) | 10. cast, drift, ramble, range, roam, roll, rove, stray, swan, tramp, vagabond, wander | move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment.; "The gypsies roamed the woods"; "roving vagabonds"; "the wandering Jew"; "The cattle roam across the prairie"; "the laborers drift from one town to the next"; "They rolled from town to town" |
| ~ go, locomote, move, travel | 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" |
| ~ maunder | wander aimlessly. |
| ~ gad, gallivant, jazz around | wander aimlessly in search of pleasure. |
| ~ drift, err, stray | wander from a direct course or at random.; "The child strayed from the path and her parents lost sight of her"; "don't drift from the set course" |
| ~ wander | go via an indirect route or at no set pace.; "After dinner, we wandered into town" |
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