ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

thread one's way, plow one's way; slide, glide, coast, skim, skate; march in procession,
file on, defile.
go to, repair to, resort to, hie to, betake oneself to.
Adj. traveling &c v.; ambulatory, itinerant, peripatetic, roving, rambling, gadding,
discursive, vagrant, migratory, monadic; circumforanean † , circumforaneous † ;
noctivagrant † , mundivagrant; locomotive.
wayfaring, wayworn; travel-stained.
Adv. on foot, on horseback, on Shanks's mare; by the Marrowbone stage: in transitu &c
270 [Lat.]; en route &c 282.
Int. come along!,
267. [Locomotion by water, or air.] Navigation -- N. navigation; aquatics; boating,
yachting; ship &c 273; oar, paddle, screw, sail, canvas, aileron.
natation † , swimming; fin, flipper, fish's tail.
aerostation † , aerostatics † , aeronautics; balloonery † ; balloon &c 273; ballooning,
aviation, airmanship; flying, flight, volitation † ; wing, pinion; rocketry, space travel,
astronautics, orbital mechanics, orbiting.
voyage, sail, cruise, passage, circumnavigation, periplus † ; headway, sternway, leeway;
fairway.
mariner &c 269.
flight, trip; shuttle, run, airlift.
V. sail; put to sea &c (depart) 293; take ship, get under way; set sail, spread sail, spread
canvas; gather way, have way on; make sail, carry sail; plow the waves, plow the deep,
plow the main, plow the ocean; walk the waters.
navigate, warp, luff † , scud, boom, kedge; drift, course, cruise, coast; hug the shore,
hug the land; circumnavigate.
ply the oar, row, paddle, pull, scull, punt, steam.
swim, float; buffet the waves, ride the storm, skim, effleurer [Fr.], dive, wade.
fly, be wafted, hover, soar, flutter, jet, orbit, rocket; take wing, take a flight, take off,
ascend, blast off, land, alight; wing one's flight, wing one's way; aviate; parachute, jump,
glide.
Adj. sailing &c v.; volant † , aerostatic † ; seafaring, nautical, maritime, naval; seagoing,
coasting; afloat; navigable; aerial, aeronautic; grallatory † .
Adv. under way, under sail, under canvas, under steam; on the wing, in flight, in orbit.
Phr. bon voyage; spread the thin oar and catch the driving gale [Pope].
268. Traveler -- N. traveler, wayfarer, voyager, itinerant, passenger, commuter.
tourist, excursionist, explorer, adventurer, mountaineer, hiker, backpacker, Alpine
Club; peregrinator † , wanderer, rover, straggler, rambler; bird of passage; gadabout,
gadling † ; vagrant, scatterling † , landloper † , waifs and estrays † , wastrel, foundling; loafer;
tramp, tramper; vagabond, nomad, Bohemian, gypsy, Arab † , Wandering Jew, Hadji,
pilgrim, palmer; peripatetic; somnambulist, emigrant, fugitive, refugee; beach comber,
booly † ; globegirdler † , globetrotter; vagrant, hobo [U.S.], night walker, sleep walker;
noctambulist, runabout, straphanger, swagman, swagsman [Austral.]; trecker † , trekker,
zingano † , zingaro † .
runner, courier; Mercury, Iris, Ariel † , comet.