Word.ws English Dictionary

travel bugs

travel bugs is the plural of travel bug.

Meaning of travel bug

Noun

travel bug (plural travel bugs)

  1. A tag stamped with a number, placed in a geocache (often attached to another item, called a hitchhiker) so that subsequent finders can take it to other caches and track its movement around the world.
    • The teams placed their travel bugs in a geocache and listed the bugs on the geocaching.com Web site […]Geocaching for Schools and Communities (page 182)
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see travel, bug.
    • After my trip to New Zealand, I caught the travel bug: now I go abroad several times a year.
    Synonyms:
    wanderlust

Questions about travel bugs

What is travel bugs the plural of?
Travel bugs is the plural of travel bug.

Words near travel bugs in the dictionary

  1. travel book
  2. travel books
  3. travel bubble
  4. travel bubbles
  5. travel bug
  6. travel bugs
  7. travel document
  8. travel documents
  9. travel guide
  10. travel guides
  11. travel insurance

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: travel bugs (page history and authors); travel bug (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “travel bugs.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/travel_bugs. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.