Thesaurus results for CIRCUMAMBULATE

circumambulate

verb

as in to traverse

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Recent Examples of circumambulate Visitors circumambulate the gallery, opening gray stall doors and finding sculptures inside. —

Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 12 July 2024 Trying to stay upright while circumambulating these tilted, towering forms induced vertigo. —

Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2024 The stupas’ projecting platforms and pillars were decorated with narrative scenes so devotees circumambulating the stupas (always in a clockwise direction) could familiarize themselves with stories that illustrate Buddhist precepts. —

Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2023 An aerial view of Muslim pilgrims circumambulating the Grand Mosque in September 2017. —

Eva Dou, WSJ, 31 July 2018 Hajj pilgrims circumambulate around the Kaaba, Islam's holiest site, located in the center of the Masjid al-Haram (Grand Mosque) in Mecca, Saudi Arabia on Aug. 22, 2017. —

Laignee Barron, Time, 7 Mar. 2018 The minimum of wall text is an invitation to circumambulate. —

A.j. Goldmann, WSJ, 19 Aug. 2017

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Multiple waves of low pressure will traverse this boundary, and this coupled with the Pacific moisture transport and upslope flow/forcing over the higher terrain of the coastal ranges and northern Sierra Nevada foothills should yield as much as an additional 5 to 10 inches of rain.

— Anna Skinner, Newsweek, 3 Feb. 2025
In Connemara National Park in County Galway, hike to views of the Twelve Bens Mountains, or traverse across Glenveagh National Park in County Donegal, which has gorgeous lakeside and mountain trails, and then hit the visitor center for tea and cake.

— Yvonne Gordon, AFAR Media, 31 Jan. 2025