urban exploration
urban exploration noun: the exploration of man-made, particularly urban, environments; such exploration in places which are not normally accessible due to prohibited access or abandonment.
Noun
urban exploration (uncountable)
- The exploration of man-made, particularly urban, environments; such exploration in places which are not normally accessible due to prohibited access or abandonment.
- While there are people living beneath Manhattan — most of them addicts or mentally ill — many of Toth's claims of thousands of people living in quasi-tribes have been cast into doubt by the urban exploration community.2006, Geek Monthly, numbers 1-4, page 1980
- Urban exploration verges toward transgression without ever shattering it. Yet while urban exploration retains a purely inquisitive outlook, whereby exploration is conceived of in moralistic terms, its gradual reliance on a transgressive outlook is inevitable.2006, Dylan Trigg, The Aesthetics of Decay: Nothingness, Nostalgia, and the Absence of Reason, page 191
- Synonyms:
- vadding
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Questions about urban exploration
- What does urban exploration mean?
- Urban exploration means the exploration of man-made, particularly urban, environments; such exploration in places which are not normally accessible due to prohibited access or abandonment.
- What part of speech is urban exploration?
- Urban exploration is a noun.
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