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high adventure

high adventure noun: exciting or strenuous outdoor recreational activities such as backpacking, rock climbing, mountaineering, and whitewater kayaking.

Noun

high adventure (uncountable)

  1. Exciting or strenuous outdoor recreational activities such as backpacking, rock climbing, mountaineering, and whitewater kayaking.
    • Culture has not emasculated me. I am quite unaffected. It was in the day's work, and my kind have always been day-workers, doing the day's work, whatever it might be, in high adventure or dull ploddingness, and always doing it.1914, Jack London, The Mutiny of the Elsinore, Chapter XLVI
  2. A style of literature involving danger and excitement in remote or lawless places.

Questions about high adventure

What does high adventure mean?
High adventure means exciting or strenuous outdoor recreational activities such as backpacking, rock climbing, mountaineering, and whitewater kayaking.
What part of speech is high adventure?
High adventure is a noun.

Words near high adventure in the dictionary

  1. Higgslike
  2. higgson
  3. higgsons
  4. high
  5. High Abbotside
  6. high adventure
  7. High Alemannic
  8. high altar
  9. high altars
  10. high and dry
  11. high and low

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