peregrinate

verb

ˈper-ə-grə-ˌnāt How to pronounce peregrinate (audio)
Definition of peregrinatenext
1
as in to traverse
to make one's way through, across, or over Jack Kerouac's celebrated novel about penniless free spirits peregrinating the United States

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2
as in to travel
to take a trip especially of some distance a couple of backpacking college students who decided to spend the summer peregrinating around Ireland

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for peregrinate
  1. traverse
  2. travel
  3. cross
  4. trek
  5. follow
  6. voyage
  7. walk
  8. journey
Verb
  • Guests can traverse bumpy tracks by Jeep to picnic on the never-ending sandy stretch of beaches.
    Rooksana Hossenally, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
  • The Traitors were not so subtly traversing the castle to find each other.
    Tom Smyth, Vulture, 10 Jan. 2025
Definition of traverse
Verb
  • Despite her best efforts to prepare for a Sunday matchup against Northwestern, the Wildcats decided not to travel to L.A. because of the fires.
    Anthony De Leon, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2025
  • Entire ecosystems hitched a ride, with marine species traveling thousands of miles to the shores of North America.
    Scott Travers, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025
Definition of travel
Verb
  • Some of those who chose to walk up PCH tried their luck hitchhiking with the few vehicles that had been able to cross into the evacuation zone.
    Connor Sheets, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2025
  • This mirrors what has been thoroughly documented along the U.S. border, where migrants attempt to cross through more remote (and therefore deadly) areas to avoid the U.S. Border Patrol.
    Angel Escamilla Garcia, Orlando Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2025
Definition of cross
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  • Pete Hegseth, the combat veteran and former Fox News personality tapped by President-elect Donald Trump to serve as his next secretary of defense, trekked up to Capitol Hill on Tuesday, Jan. 14, for his confirmation hearing in front of the Senate Armed Services Committee.
    Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 16 Jan. 2025
  • The bandmates trekked to Grassmarket, at the center of the neighborhood, and kicked their feet up outside the White Hart Inn with drinks.
    Brendan Le, People.com, 13 Jan. 2025
Definition of trek
Verb
  • While the show follows the Howey novels fairly closely, things develop differently; genders are flipped, and deaths happen in different ways.
    Barry Levitt, TIME, 17 Jan. 2025
  • It's followed by Jūrmala, Latvia, Košice, Slovakia, and Freiburg in Germany, rounding out the top five.
    Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 17 Jan. 2025
Definition of follow
Verb
  • Book now with Aqua Expeditions Amazon River voyages with Seabourn Journeying through the Boca dos Botos portion of the Amazon River in Brazil, Seabourn's expedition team will immerse you in the region's one-of-a-kind ecosystem.
    Paris Wilson, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Dec. 2024
  • This authentic replica of an ancient Polynesian double-hulled voyaging canoe was built in the 1970s and has since voyaged thousands of nautical miles.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 28 Nov. 2024
Definition of voyage
Verb
  • Doubs eventually walked off the field and to the locker room with two trainers assisting him.
    Jelani Scott, The Athletic, 13 Jan. 2025
  • Owners love them for all kinds of activities, like walking, hiking, and sightseeing.
    Rylee Johnston, Travel + Leisure, 12 Jan. 2025
Definition of walk
Verb
  • Through a series of 31 interactive exhibits, visitors journey down the Fraser River to the headwaters of the Upper Colorado River Basin, where water is diverted across the Continental Divide into metro Denver.
    Gigi Ragland, The Denver Post, 14 Jan. 2025
  • After transiting the canal, the ship journeys north along the East Coast to Newfoundland, Canada, and finally across the Atlantic to Europe.
    Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 14 Jan. 2025
Definition of journey
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