| adventurer | | |
| n. (person) | 1. adventurer, venturer | a person who enjoys taking risks. |
| ~ individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul | a human being.; "there was too much for one person to do" |
| ~ argonaut | someone engaged in a dangerous but potentially rewarding adventure. |
| ~ adventuress | a woman adventurer. |
| ~ cowboy | someone who is reckless or irresponsible (especially in driving vehicles). |
| ~ daredevil, harum-scarum, madcap, swashbuckler, hothead, lunatic | a reckless impetuous irresponsible person. |
| ~ risk taker, gambler | someone who risks loss or injury in the hope of gain or excitement. |
| ~ hotspur | a rash or impetuous person. |
| ~ mercenary, soldier of fortune | a person hired to fight for another country than their own. |
| ~ mountain climber, mountaineer | someone who climbs mountains. |
| ~ plunger, speculator | someone who risks losses for the possibility of considerable gains. |
| ~ casanova, casanova de seingalt, giovanni jacopo casanova, giovanni jacopo casanova de seingalt | an Italian adventurer who wrote vivid accounts of his sexual encounters (1725-1798). |
| n. (person) | 2. adventurer, explorer | someone who travels into little known regions (especially for some scientific purpose). |
| ~ individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul | a human being.; "there was too much for one person to do" |
| ~ conquistador | an adventurer (especially one who led the Spanish conquest of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century). |
| ~ diver, frogman, underwater diver | someone who works underwater. |
| ~ navigator | in earlier times, a person who explored by ship. |
| ~ potholer, spelaeologist, speleologist, spelunker | a person who explores caves. |
| ~ amundsen, roald amundsen | Norwegian explorer who was the first to traverse the Northwest Passage and in 1911 the first to reach the South Pole (1872-1928). |
| ~ bartlett, captain bob, robert abram bartlett, robert bartlett | United States explorer who accompanied Peary's expedition to the North Pole and who led many other Arctic trips (1875-1946). |
| ~ bougainville, louis antoine de bougainville | French explorer who circumnavigated the globe accompanied by scientists (1729-1811). |
| ~ burton, richard burton, sir richard burton, sir richard francis burton | English explorer who with John Speke was the first European to explore Lake Tanganyika (1821-1890). |
| ~ admiral byrd, richard e. byrd, richard evelyn byrd, byrd | explorer and United States naval officer; led expeditions to explore Antarctica (1888-1957). |
| ~ cabot, sebastian cabot | son of John Cabot who was born in Italy and who led an English expedition in search of the Northwest Passage and a Spanish expedition that explored the La Plata region of Brazil; in 1544 he published a map of the world (1476-1557). |
| ~ champlain, samuel de champlain | French explorer in Nova Scotia who established a settlement on the site of modern Quebec (1567-1635). |
| ~ clark, william clark | United States explorer who (with Meriwether Lewis) led an expedition from St. Louis to the mouth of the Columbia River; Clark was responsible for making maps of the area (1770-1838). |
| ~ cordova, francisco fernandez cordoba, francisco fernandez de cordova, cordoba | Spanish explorer who discovered Yucatan (1475-1526). |
| ~ cousteau, jacques costeau, jacques yves costeau | French underwater explorer (born in 1910). |
| ~ flinders, matthew flinders, sir matthew flinders | British explorer who mapped the Australian coast (1774-1814). |
| ~ fremont, john c. fremont, john charles fremont | United States explorer who mapped much of the American west and Northwest (1813-1890). |
| ~ frobisher, sir martin frobisher | English explorer who led an expedition in search of the Northwest Passage to the orient; served under Drake and helped defeat the Spanish Armada (1535-1594). |
| ~ charles francis hall, hall | United States explorer who led three expeditions to the Arctic (1821-1871). |
| ~ joliet, jolliet, louis joliet, louis jolliet | French explorer (with Jacques Marquette) of the upper Mississippi River valley (1645-1700). |
| ~ lasalle, rene-robert cavelier, sieur de lasalle | French explorer who claimed Louisiana for France (1643-1687). |
| ~ meriwether lewis, lewis | United States explorer and soldier who lead led an expedition from St. Louis to the mouth of the Columbia River (1774-1809). |
| ~ david livingstone, livingstone | Scottish missionary and explorer who discovered the Zambezi River and Victoria Falls (1813-1873). |
| ~ mackenzie, sir alexander mackenzie | Canadian explorer (born in England) who explored the Mackenzie River and who was first to cross North America by land north of Mexico (1764-1820). |
| ~ fridtjof nansen, nansen | Norwegian explorer of the Arctic and director of the League of Nations relief program for refugees of World War I (1861-1930). |
| ~ mungo park, park | Scottish explorer in Africa (1771-1806). |
| ~ peary, robert e. peary, robert edwin peary, robert peary | United States Arctic explorer and United States naval officer who has been regarded as the first man to reach the North Pole (1856-1920). |
| ~ kund johan victor rasmussen, rasmussen | Danish ethnologist and Arctic explorer; led expeditions into the Arctic to find support for his theory that Eskimos and North American Indians originally migrated from Asia (1879-1933). |
| ~ james clark ross, sir james clark ross, ross | British explorer of the Arctic and Antarctic; located the north magnetic pole in 1831; discovered the Ross Sea in Antarctica; nephew of Sir John Ross (1800-1862). |
| ~ john ross, ross, sir john ross | Scottish explorer who led Arctic expeditions that yielded geographic discoveries while searching for the Northwest Passage (1777-1856). |
| ~ henry rowe schoolcraft, schoolcraft | United States geologist and ethnologist and explorer who discovered the source of the Mississippi River (1793-1864). |
| ~ robert falcon scott, robert scott, scott | English explorer who reached the South Pole just a month after Amundsen; he and his party died on the return journey (1868-1912). |
| ~ captain john smith, john smith, smith | English explorer who helped found the colony at Jamestown, Virginia; was said to have been saved by Pocahontas (1580-1631). |
| ~ john hanning speke, john speke, speke | English explorer who with Sir Richard Burton was the first European to explore Lake Tanganyika; he also discovered Lake Victoria and named it (1827-1864). |
| ~ henry m. stanley, john rowlands, sir henry morton stanley, stanley | Welsh journalist and explorer who led an expedition to Africa in search of David Livingstone and found him in Tanzania in 1871; he and Livingstone together tried to find the source of the Nile River (1841-1904). |
| ~ otto neumann sverdrup, sverdrup | Norwegian explorer who led expeditions into the Arctic (1855-1930). |
| ~ sebastian vizcaino, vizcaino | Spanish explorer who was the first European to explore the California coast (1550-1615). |
| ~ charles wilkes, wilkes | United States explorer of Antarctica (1798-1877). |
| ~ george hubert wilkins, wilkins | Australian who was the first to explore the Arctic by airplane (1888-1958). |
| 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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