traveling

From the verb travel: (⇒ conjugate)

traveling is: ⓘ

v pres p (US)

WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2025

trav•el /ˈtrævəl/   v., -eled, -el•ing or (esp. Brit.) -elled, -el•ling, n., adj. 
v. 

1. to go from one place to another, as by car, train, plane, or ship: [no object]
   They traveled all night.
   [~ + object]
   They traveled the world and the seven seas.
2. to proceed (at a certain speed or distance): [no object]
   The car was traveling at sixty miles an hour.
   [~ + object]
   We traveled nearly six hundred miles.
3. to pass or be transmitted, as light or information:
   [no object] The news traveled quickly.

n. 

4. the act of traveling, esp. to distant places:
   [uncountable] She enjoys painting, art, and travel.
5. travels, [plural] journeys;
   wanderings:
   In all my travels I never saw anything as beautiful as this sunset.

adj. 

6. for use while traveling:
   a travel alarm clock.

trav•el•er, trav•el•ler, n. [countable]
Usage

Compare trip and travel. For a particular amount of traveling, the noun trip is usually used:
I hope you had a pleasant trip.
The trip took ten hours.
The word travel is more often used as a noncount noun to refer to the general idea of traveling:
She's interested in travel and tourism.
When travels is used, it refers to a journey or trip that has many stops or involves many places:
In all my travels I've never met so many helpful people.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025

trav•el  (trav′əl), v., -eled, -el•ing or (esp. Brit.) -elled, -el•ling, n., adj. 
v.i. 

1. to go from one place to another, as by car, train, plane, or ship;
   take a trip;
   journey:
   to travel for pleasure.
2. to move or go from one place or point to another.
3. to proceed or advance in any way.
4. to go from place to place as a representative of a business firm.
5. to associate or consort:
   He travels in a wealthy crowd.
6. [Informal.] to move with speed.
7. to pass, or be transmitted, as light or sound.
8. [Basketball.] walk (def. 9).
9. to move in a fixed course, as a piece of mechanism.

v.t. 

10. to travel, journey, or pass through or over, as a country or road.
11. to journey or traverse (a specified distance):
    We traveled a hundred miles.
12. to cause to journey;
    ship:
    to travel logs downriver.

n. 

13. the act of traveling;
    journeying, esp. to distant places:
    to travel to other planets.
14. travels:
    • journeys;
      wanderings:
      to set out on one's travels.
    • journeys as the subject of a written account or literary work:
      a book of travels.
    • such an account or work.
15. the coming and going of persons or conveyances along a way of passage;
    traffic:
    an increase in travel on state roads.
16. [Mach.]
    • the complete movement of a moving part, esp. a reciprocating part, in one direction, or the distance traversed;
      stroke.
    • length of stroke.
17. movement or passage in general:
    to reduce the travel of food from kitchen to table.

adj. 

18. used or designed for use while traveling:
    a travel alarm clock.

• Middle English (north and Scots), origin, originally the same word as travail (by shift "to toil, labor'' "to make a laborious journey'') 1325–75

trav ′el•a•ble, adj. 

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::

travel / ˈtræv^əl/ verb ( -els, -elling, -elled) ( -els, -eling, -eled)(mainly intr)

1. to go, move, or journey from one place to another
2. (transitive) to go, move, or journey through or across (an area, region, etc)
3. to go, move, or cover a specified or unspecified distance
4. to go from place to place as a sales representative
5. (esp of perishable goods) to withstand a journey
6. (of light, sound, etc) to be transmitted or move
7. to progress or advance
8. to take an excessive number of steps while holding the ball
9. (of part of a mechanism) to move in a fixed predetermined path
10. to move rapidly

noun

1. the act of travelling
2. (as modifier): a travel brochure
   Related adjective(s): itinerant
3. (usually plural) a tour or journey
4. the distance moved by a mechanical part, such as the stroke of a piston
5. movement or passage

Etymology: 14th Century travaillen to make a journey, from Old French travaillier to travail