travelling

Verb

travel (third-person singular simple present travels, present participle (US) traveling or (UK) travelling, simple past and past participle (US) traveled or (UK) travelled)

1. (intransitive) To be on a journey, often for pleasure or business and with luggage; to go from one place to another.
   • John seems to spend as much time travelling as he does in the office.
2. (intransitive) To pass from one place to another; to move or transmit.
   • Soundwaves can travel through water.

   Synonyms:

   range

3. (intransitive) To move illegally by walking or running without dribbling the ball.
4. (transitive) To travel throughout (a place).
   • I’ve travelled the world.
5. (transitive) To force to journey.
   • They shall not be travailed forth of their own franchises.1596 (date written; published 1633), Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande […], Dublin: […] Societie of Stationers, […], →OCLC; republished as A View of the State of Ireland […]...
6. (obsolete) To labour; to travail.
   • Necessity will make men fare hard, and work hard, and travel hard, go bare, and suffer much; yea it will even cut off a leg or arm to save their lives;1707, Richard Baxter, The Practical Works of the Late Reverend and Pious Mr. Richard Baxter, page 646

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