She had been travelling miles to work: he was using the garage for a workshop.
Fay Weldon NOTHING TO WEAR AND NOWHERE TO HIDE: A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES (2002)
I always had some idea you were a travelling salesman, always writing to you at a box number.
Jon Cleary YESTERDAY'S SHADOW (2002)
In other languages
travelling
British English: travelling /ˈtrævlɪŋ/ NOUN
Travelling is the process of going from one place to another, often one that is far away.
I love travelling.
American English: traveling
Arabic: سَفَر
Brazilian Portuguese: viagem
Chinese: 旅行
Croatian: putovanje
Czech: cestování
Danish: det at rejse
Dutch: reizen
European Spanish: viaje viajar
Finnish: matkailu
French: voyage
German: Reisen
Greek: ταξίδι
Italian: viaggio
Japanese: 旅行
Korean: 여행
Norwegian: reising
Polish: podróżowanie
European Portuguese: viagem
Romanian: călătorie
Russian: путешествие
Latin American Spanish: viaje
Swedish: resande
Thai: การเดินทาง
Turkish: seyahat etme
Ukrainian: подорожування
Vietnamese: sự du lịch
All related terms of 'travelling'
travel
If you travel , you go from one place to another, often to a place that is far away .
walk
When you walk , you move forward by putting one foot in front of the other in a regular way.
travelling wave
a wave carrying energy away from its source
travelling clock
a small clock taken by someone who is travelling
travelling library
a mobile library in which a vehicle such as a van delivers books to be borrowed
travelling people
Gypsies or other itinerant people: a term used esp by such people of themselves
travelling expenses
expenses that are paid to someone, for example , by their employer , for the costs they need to travel
travelling salesman
A travelling salesman is the same as a → travelling salesperson .
travelling salesperson
A travelling salesperson is a salesperson who travels to different places and meets people in order to sell goods or take orders.
travelling saleswoman
A travelling saleswoman is the same as a → travelling salesperson .
travelling-wave tube
an electronic tube in which an electron beam interacts with a distributed high-frequency magnetic field so that energy is transferred from the beam to the field
time travel
travel through time into the past or the future
traveling block
A traveling block is a set of sheaves (= pulleys ) which forms part of a system in the derrick for lowering and lifting heavy things into or out of the wellbore.
Chinese translation of 'travelling'
travelling
or (US) traveling
(ˈtrævlɪŋ)
n(u)
行程 (xíngchéng)
cpd
[circus, exhibition]巡回(迴) (xúnhuí)
travelling expenses旅费(費) (lǚfèi)
travel
(ˈtrævl)
n(u)
(= travelling) 旅行 (lǚxíng)
vi
[person]前往 (qiánwǎng)
[light, sound, news]传(傳)播 (chuánbō)
vt
[distance]走过(過) (zǒuguò)
news travels fast消息传(傳)得快 (xiāoxi chuán de kuài)
this wine doesn't travel well这(這)酒不宜长(長)途运(運)输(輸) (zhè jiǔ bùyí chángtú yùnshū)
Derived Forms
travelsn, pl(c)游(遊)历(歷) (yóulì)
(adjective)
troupes of travelling actors
Synonyms
itinerant
the author's experiences as an itinerant musician
moving
touring
mobile
a four-hundred-seat mobile theatre
wandering
a band of wandering musicians
unsettled
roaming
migrant
migrant workers
restless
He led a restless life.
roving
nomadic
the nomadic tribes of the Western Sahara
migratory
a migratory farm labourer
peripatetic
Her father was in the army and the family led a peripatetic existence.
wayfaring
Additional synonyms
in the sense of migrant
Definition
moving from one place to another
migrant workers
Synonyms
itinerant,
wandering,
drifting,
roving,
travelling,
shifting,
immigrant,
transient,
nomadic,
migratory,
vagrant
in the sense of migratory
a migratory farm labourer
Synonyms
nomadic,
travelling,
wandering,
migrant,
itinerant,
unsettled,
shifting,
roving,
transient,
vagrant,
peripatetic
in the sense of mobile
Definition
able to move or be moved
a four-hundred-seat mobile theatre
Synonyms
movable,
moving,
travelling,
wandering,
portable,
locomotive,
itinerant,
peripatetic,
ambulatory,
motile
Nearby words of
travelling
travail
travel
traveller
travelling
traverse
travesty
trawl
Related terms of
travelling
travel
Synonyms of 'travelling'
travelling
Explore 'travelling' in the dictionary
Additional synonyms
in the sense of nomadic
the nomadic tribes of the Western Sahara
Synonyms
wandering,
travelling,
roaming,
migrant,
pastoral,
roving,
itinerant,
migratory,
vagrant,
peripatetic
in the sense of peripatetic
Definition
travelling from place to place
Her father was in the army and the family led a peripatetic existence.