travels

Noun

travel (countable and uncountable, plural travels)

1. The act of traveling; passage from place to place.
   • I like travel, but it’s always too tiring.

   Synonyms:

   journey, passage, tour, trip, voyage

2. (in plural) A series of journeys.
   • I’m off on my travels around France again.
3. (in plural) An account of one's travels.
   • He released his travels in 1900, two years after returning from Africa.
4. The activity or traffic along a route or through a given point.
5. The working motion of a piece of machinery; the length of a mechanical stroke.
   • There was a lot of travel in the handle, because the tool was out of adjustment.

   Synonyms:

   stroke, movement, progression

6. (obsolete) Labour; parturition; travail.
   • Hard Labour is when more vehement Pains and dangerous Symptomes happen to Women in Travel, and continue a longer time.1667, John Tanner, The hidden treasures of the art of physick, page 208

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