Synonyms of the word

trail

• v. (transitive) To follow behind (someone or something); to tail (someone or something).
• v. (transitive) To drag (something) behind on the ground.
• v. (transitive) To leave (a trail of).
• v. (transitive) To show a trailer of (a film, TV show etc.); to release or publish a preview of (a report…
• v. To be losing, to be behind in a competition.
• v. (military) To carry (a firearm) with the breech near the ground and the upper part inclined forward, the…
• v. To flatten (grass, etc.) by walking through it; to tread down.
• v. (dated) To take advantage of the ignorance of; to impose upon.
• n. The track or indication marking the route followed by something that has passed, such as the footprints…
• n. A route for travel over land, especially a narrow, unpaved pathway for use by hikers, horseback riders,…
• n. A trailer broadcast on television for a forthcoming film or programme.
• n. (graph theory) A walk in which all the edges are distinct.

cartroad

• n. (historical) A road for the driving of carts.

chase

• n. The act of one who chases another; a pursuit.
• n. A hunt.
• n. (uncountable) A children's game where one player chases another.
• n. (Britain) A large country estate where game may be shot or hunted.
• n. Anything being chased, especially a vessel in time of war.
• n. (nautical) Any of the guns that fire directly ahead or astern; either a bow chase or stern chase.
• n. (real tennis) The occurrence of a second bounce by the ball in certain areas of the court, giving the…
• n. (real tennis) A division of the floor of a gallery, marked by a figure or otherwise; the spot where a…
• n. (cycling) One or more riders who are ahead of the peloton and trying to join the race or stage leaders.
• v. (transitive) To pursue, to follow at speed.
• v. (transitive) To hunt.
• v. (intransitive) To give chase; to hunt.
• v. (transitive, nautical) To pursue a vessel in order to destroy, capture or interrogate her.
• v. (transitive) To dilute alcohol.
• v. (transitive, cricket) To attempt to win by scoring the required number of runs in the final innings.
• v. (transitive, baseball) To swing at a pitch outside of the strike zone, typically an outside pitch.
• v. (transitive, baseball) To produce enough offense to cause the pitcher to be removed.
• n. (printing) A rectangular steel or iron frame into which pages or columns of type are locked for printing…
• n. A groove cut in an object; a slot: the chase for the quarrel on a crossbow.
• n. (architecture) A trench or channel or other encasement structure for encasing (archaically spelled enchasing)…
• n. The part of a gun in front of the trunnions.
• n. The cavity of a mold.
• n. (shipbuilding) A kind of joint by which an overlap joint is changed to a flush joint by means of a gradually…
• v. (transitive) To groove; indent.
• v. (transitive) To place piping or wiring in a groove encased within a wall or floor, or in a hidden space…
• v. (transitive) To cut (the thread of a screw).
• v. (transitive) To decorate (metal) by engraving or embossing.

course

• n. A sequence of events.
• n. A path that something or someone moves along.
• n. (nautical) The lowest square sail in a fully rigged mast, often named according to the mast.
• n. (in the plural, courses, obsolete, euphemistic) Menses.
• n. A row or file of objects.
• n. (music) A string on a lute.
• n. (music) A pair of strings played together in some musical instruments, like the vihuela.
• v. To run or flow (especially of liquids and more particularly blood).
• v. To run through or over.
• v. To pursue by tracking or estimating the course taken by one's prey; to follow or chase after.
• v. To cause to chase after or pursue game.
• adv. (colloquial) Alternative form of of course.

dawdle

• v. (intransitive) To spend time idly and unfruitfully, to waste time.
• v. (transitive) To spend (time) without haste or purpose.
• v. (intransitive) To move or walk lackadaisically.
• n. A dawdler.

dog

• n. A mammal, Canis lupus familiaris, that has been domesticated for thousands of years, of highly variable…
• n. A male dog, wolf or fox, as opposed to a bitch (often attributive).
• n. (slang, derogatory) A dull, unattractive girl or woman.
• n. (slang) A man (derived from definition 2).
• n. (slang, derogatory) A coward.
• n. (derogatory) Someone who is morally reprehensible.
• n. (slang) A sexually aggressive man (cf. horny).
• n. Any of various mechanical devices for holding, gripping, or fastening something, particularly with a tooth-like…
• n. A click or pallet adapted to engage the teeth of a ratchet-wheel, to restrain the back action; a click…
• n. A metal support for logs in a fireplace.
• n. A hot dog.
• n. (poker slang) Underdog.
• n. (slang, almost always in the plural) Foot.
• v. (transitive) To pursue with the intent to catch.
• v. (transitive) To follow in an annoying or harassing way.
• v. (transitive, nautical) To fasten a hatch securely.
• v. (intransitive, emerging usage in Britain) To watch, or participate, in sexual activity in a public place.
• v. (intransitive, transitive) To intentionally restrict one's productivity as employee; to work at the slowest…

drag

• n. (uncountable) Resistance of the air (or some other fluid) to something moving through it.
• n. (countable, foundry) The bottom part of a sand casting mold.
• n. (countable) A device dragged along the bottom of a body of water in search of something, e.g. a dead body,…
• n. (countable, informal) A puff on a cigarette or joint.
• n. (countable, slang) Someone or something that is annoying or frustrating, or disappointing; an obstacle…
• n. (countable, slang) Horse-drawn wagon or buggy.
• n. (countable, slang) Street, as in 'main drag'.
• n. (countable) The scent-path left by dragging a fox, for training hounds to follow scents.
• n. (countable, snooker) A large amount of backspin on the cue ball, causing the cue ball to slow down.
• n. A heavy harrow for breaking up ground.
• n. A kind of sledge for conveying heavy objects; also, a kind of low car or handcart.
• n. (metallurgy) The bottom part of a flask or mould, the upper part being the cope.
• n. (masonry) A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone.
• n. (nautical) The difference between the speed of a screw steamer under sail and that of the screw when the…
• n. Anything towed in the water to retard a ship's progress, or to keep her head up to the wind; especially,…
• n. A skid or shoe for retarding the motion of a carriage wheel.
• n. Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged.
• v. (transitive) To pull along a surface or through a medium, sometimes with difficulty.
• v. (intransitive) To move slowly.
• v. To act or proceed slowly or without enthusiasm; to be reluctant.
• v. To move onward heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance with weary effort; to go on lingeringly.
• v. To draw along (something burdensome); hence, to pass in pain or with difficulty.
• v. To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back.
• v. (computing) To move (an item) on the computer display by means of a mouse or other input device.
• v. To inadvertently rub or scrape on a surface.
• v. (soccer) To hit or kick off target.
• v. To fish with a dragnet.
• v. To search for something, as a lost object or body, by dragging something along the bottom of a body of…
• v. To break (land) by drawing a drag or harrow over it; to harrow.
• v. (figuratively) To search exhaustively, as if with a dragnet.
• v. (slang) To roast, say negative things about, or call attention to the flaws of (someone).
• n. (uncountable, slang) Women's clothing worn by men for the purpose of entertainment.
• n. (uncountable, slang) Any type of clothing or costume associated with a particular occupation or subculture.
• v. To perform as a drag queen or drag king.

evidence

• n. Facts or observations presented in support of an assertion.
• n. (law) Anything admitted by a court to prove or disprove alleged matters of fact in a trial.
• n. One who bears witness.
• v. (transitive) To provide evidence for, or suggest the truth of.

follow

• v. (transitive) To go after; to pursue; to move behind in the same path or direction.
• v. (transitive) To go or come after in a sequence.
• v. (transitive) To carry out (orders, instructions, etc.).
• v. (transitive) To live one's life according to (religion, teachings, etc).
• v. (transitive) To understand, to pay attention to.
• v. (transitive) To watch, to keep track of (reports of) some event or person.
• v. (transitive) To be a logical consequence of.
• v. (transitive) To walk in, as a road or course; to attend upon closely, as a profession or calling.
• n. (sometimes attributive) In billiards and similar games, a stroke causing a ball to follow another ball…
• n. (Internet) The act of following another user's online activity.

go

• v. To move.
• v. (intransitive, chiefly of a machine) To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).
• v. (intransitive) To start; to begin (an action or process).
• v. (intransitive) To take a turn, especially in a game.
• v. (intransitive) To attend.
• v. To proceed.
• v. To follow or travel along (a path).
• v. (intransitive) To extend (from one point in time or space to another).
• v. (intransitive) To lead (to a place); to give access to.
• v. (copula) To become. (The adjective that follows usually describes a negative state.).
• v. To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.
• v. (intransitive) To continuously or habitually be in a state.
• v. To come to (a certain condition or state).
• v. (intransitive) To change (from one value to another).
• v. To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).
• v. (intransitive) To tend (toward a result).
• v. To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.
• v. To pass, to be used up.
• v. (intransitive) To die.
• v. (intransitive) To be discarded.
• v. (intransitive, cricket) To be lost or out.
• v. To break down or apart.
• v. (intransitive) To be sold.
• v. (intransitive) To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.
• v. (transitive, sports) To have a certain record.
• v. To be authoritative, accepted, or valid.
• v. To say (something), to make a sound.
• v. To be expressed or composed (a certain way).
• v. (intransitive) To resort (to).
• v. To apply or subject oneself to.
• v. To fit (in a place, or together with something).
• v. (intransitive) To date.
• v. To attack.
• v. To be in general; to be usually.
• v. (transitive) To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.
• v. (transitive) To yield or weigh.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To enjoy. (Compare go for.).
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) To urinate or defecate.
• n. (uncommon) The act of going.
• n. A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game).
• n. An attempt, a try.
• n. An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved.
• n. An act; the working or operation.
• n. (slang, dated) A circumstance or occurrence; an incident.
• n. (dated) The fashion or mode.
• n. (dated) Noisy merriment.
• n. (slang, archaic) A glass of spirits; a quantity of spirits.
• n. Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance.
• n. (cribbage) The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above…
• n. A period of activity.
• n. (obsolete, British slang) A dandy; a fashionable person.
• n. (board games) A strategic board game, originally from China, in which two players (black and white) attempt…

grounds

• n. plural of ground.
• n. (law) Basis or justification for something, as in "grounds for divorce.".
• n. The collective land areas that compose a larger area, as in the castle grounds.
• n. The sediment at the bottom of a liquid, or from which a liquid has been filtered (as in coffee grounds).

lag

• adj. late.
• adj. (obsolete) Last; long-delayed.
• adj. Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior.
• n. (countable) A gap, a delay; an interval created by something not keeping up; a latency.
• n. (uncountable) Delay; latency.
• n. (Britain, slang, archaic) One sentenced to transportation for a crime.
• n. (Britain, slang) a prisoner, a criminal.
• n. (snooker) A method of deciding which player shall start. Both players simultaneously strike a cue ball…
• n. One who lags; that which comes in last.
• n. The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class.
• n. A stave of a cask, drum, etc.; especially (engineering) one of the narrow boards or staves forming the…
• n. A bird, the greylag.
• v. to fail to keep up (the pace), to fall behind.
• v. to cover (for example, pipes) with felt strips or similar material.
• v. (Britain, slang, archaic) To transport as a punishment for crime.
• v. (transitive) To cause to lag; to slacken.

lead

• n. (uncountable) A heavy, pliable, inelastic metal element, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnishe…
• n. (countable) A plummet or mass of lead attached to a line, used in sounding depth at seaor (dated) to estimate…
• n. A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing.
• n. (uncountable, typography) Vertical space in advance of a row or between rows of text. Also known as leading.
• n. Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs.
• n. (plural leads) A roof covered with lead sheets or terne plates.
• n. (countable) A thin cylinder of black lead or plumbago (graphite) used in pencils.
• n. (slang) Bullets; ammunition.
• v. (transitive) To cover, fill, or affect with lead.
• v. (transitive, printing, historical) To place leads between the lines of.
• v. (heading, transitive) To guide or conduct.
• v. (intransitive) To guide or conduct, as by accompanying, going before, showing, influencing, directing…
• v. (heading) To begin, to be ahead.
• v. (transitive) To draw or direct by influence, whether good or bad; to prevail on; to induce; to entice;…
• v. (intransitive) To tend or reach in a certain direction, or to a certain place.
• v. To produce (with to).
• v. Misspelling of led.
• n. (uncountable) The act of leading or conducting; guidance; direction, course.
• n. (uncountable) Precedence; advance position; also, the measure of precedence; the state of being ahead…
• n. (countable) An insulated metallic wire for electrical devices and equipment.
• n. (baseball) The situation where a runner steps away from a base while waiting for the pitch to be thrown.
• n. (uncountable, card games, dominoes) The act or right of playing first in a game or round; the card suit,…
• n. (acting) The main role in a play or film; the lead role.
• n. (acting) The actor who plays the main role; lead actor.
• n. (countable) A channel of open water in an ice field.
• n. (countable, mining) A lode.
• n. (nautical) The course of a rope from end to end.
• n. A rope, leather strap, or similar device with which to lead an animal; a leash.
• n. In a steam engine, the width of port opening which is uncovered by the valve, for the admission or release…
• n. Charging lead.
• n. (civil engineering) The distance of haul, as from a cutting to an embankment.
• n. (horology) The action of a tooth, such as a tooth of a wheel, in impelling another tooth or a pallet.
• n. Hypothesis that has not been pursued.
• n. Information obtained by a detective or police officer that allows him or her to discover further details…
• n. (marketing) Potential opportunity for a sale or transaction, a potential customer.
• n. Information obtained by a news reporter about an issue or subject that allows him or her to discover more…
• n. (curling) The player who throws the first two rocks for a team.
• n. (newspapers) A teaser; a lead-in; the start of a newspaper column, telling who, what, when, where, why…
• n. An important news story that appears on the front page of a newspaper or at the beginning of a news broadcast.
• n. (engineering) The axial distance a screw thread travels in one revolution. It is equal to the pitch times…
• n. (music) In a barbershop quartet, the person who sings the melody, usually the second tenor.
• n. (music) The announcement by one voice part of a theme to be repeated by the other parts.
• n. (music) A mark or a short passage in one voice part, as of a canon, serving as a cue for the entrance…
• n. (engineering) The excess above a right angle in the angle between two consecutive cranks, as of a compound…
• n. (electrical) The angle between the line joining the brushes of a continuous-current dynamo and the diameter…
• n. (electrical) The advance of the current phase in an alternating circuit beyond that of the electromotive…
• adj. (not comparable) Foremost.
• adj. (music) main, principal.
• v. Misspelling of led.

locomote

• v. (now chiefly biology) To move or travel (from one location to another).

move

• v. (intransitive) To change place or posture; to stir; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to…
• v. (intransitive) To act; to take action; to stir; to begin to act.
• v. (intransitive) To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and…
• v. (intransitive, chess, and other games) To change the place of a piece in accordance with the rules of…
• v. (transitive, ergative) To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry,…
• v. (transitive, chess) To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the…
• v. (transitive) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion,…
• v. (transitive) To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion,…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To mention; to raise (a question); to suggest (a course of action); to lodge (a…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To incite, urge (someone to do something); to solicit (someone for or of an issue);…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To apply to, as for aid.
• v. (law, transitive, intransitive) To request an action from the court.
• n. The act of moving; a movement.
• n. An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
• n. A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand…
• n. The event of changing one's residence.
• n. A change in strategy.
• n. A transfer, a change from one employer to another.
• n. (board games) The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules…

path

• n. A trail for the use of, or worn by, pedestrians.
• n. A course taken.
• n. (paganism) A Pagan tradition, for example witchcraft, Wicca, druidism, Heathenry.
• n. A metaphorical course.
• n. A method or direction of proceeding.
• n. (computing) A human-readable specification for a location within a hierarchical or tree-like structure,…
• n. (graph theory) A sequence of vertices from one vertex to another using the arcs (edges). A path does not…
• v. (transitive) To make a path in, or on (something), or for (someone).

pursue

• v. (obsolete, transitive) To follow with harmful intent; to try to harm, to persecute, torment.
• v. (transitive) To follow urgently, originally with intent to capture or harm; to chase.
• v. (transitive) To follow, travel down (a particular way, course of action etc.).
• v. (transitive) To aim for, go after (a specified objective, situation etc.).
• v. (transitive) To participate in (an activity, business etc.); to practise, follow (a profession).

shack

• n. A crude, roughly built hut or cabin.
• n. Any unpleasant, poorly constructed or poorly furnished building.
• v. To live (in or with); to shack up.
• n. (obsolete) Grain fallen to the ground and left after harvest.
• n. (obsolete) Nuts which have fallen to the ground.
• n. (obsolete) Freedom to pasturage in order to feed upon shack.
• n. (Britain, US, dialect, obsolete) A shiftless fellow; a low, itinerant beggar; a vagabond; a tramp.
• v. (obsolete) To shed or fall, as corn or grain at harvest.
• v. (obsolete) To feed in stubble, or upon waste.
• v. (Britain, dialect) To wander as a vagabond or tramp.

tag

• n. A small label.
• n. A game played by two or more children in which one child (known as "it") attempts to catch one of the…
• n. A skin tag, an excrescence of skin.
• n. A type of cardboard.
• n. Graffiti in the form of a stylized signature particular to the artist.
• n. A dangling lock of sheep's wool, matted with dung; a dung tag.
• n. An attribution in narrated dialogue (eg, "he said").
• n. (chiefly US) a vehicle number plate; a medal bearing identification data (animals, soldiers).
• n. (baseball) An instance of touching the baserunner with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand.
• n. (computing) A piece of markup representing an element in a markup language.
• n. (computing) A keyword, term, or phrase associated with or assigned to data, media, and/or information…
• n. Any slight appendage, as to an article of dress; something slight hanging loosely.
• n. A metallic binding, tube, or point, at the end of a string, or lace, to stiffen it.
• n. The end, or catchword, of an actor's speech; cue.
• n. Something mean and paltry; the rabble.
• n. A sheep in its first year.
• n. (biochemistry) Any short peptide sequence artificially attached to proteins mostly in order to help purify,…
• n. (slang) A person's name.
• v. (transitive) To label (something).
• v. (transitive, graffiti) To mark (something) with one’s tag.
• v. (transitive) To remove dung tags from a sheep.
• v. (transitive, baseball, colloquial) To hit the ball hard.
• v. (transitive, baseball) To put a runner out by touching them with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand.
• v. (transitive, computing) To mark with a tag (metadata for classification).
• v. To follow closely, accompany, tag along.
• v. (transitive) To catch and touch (a player in the game of tag).
• v. (transitive) To fit with, or as if with, a tag or tags.
• v. To fasten; to attach.
• n. A decoration drawn over some Hebrew letters in Jewish scrolls.

tail

• n. (anatomy) The caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to its posterior and near the anus.
• n. The tail-end of an object, e.g. the rear of an aircraft's fuselage, containing the tailfin.
• n. An object or part of an object resembling a tail in shape, such as the thongs on a cat-o'-nine-tails.
• n. The rear structure of an aircraft, the empennage.
• n. Specifically, the visible stream of dust and gases blown from a comet by the solar wind.
• n. The latter part of a time period or event, or (collectively) persons or objects represented in this part.
• n. (statistics) The part of a distribution most distant from the mode; as, a long tail.
• n. One who surreptitiously follows another.
• n. (cricket) The last four or five batsmen in the batting order, usually specialist bowlers.
• n. (typography) The lower loop of the letters in the Roman alphabet, as in g, q or y.
• n. (chiefly in the plural) The side of a coin not bearing the head; normally the side on which the monetary…
• n. (mathematics) All the last terms of a sequence, from some term on.
• n. (now colloquial, chiefly US) The buttocks or backside.
• n. (slang) The penis of a person or animal.
• n. (slang, uncountable) Sexual intercourse.
• n. (kayaking) The stern; the back of the kayak.
• n. The back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything.
• n. A train or company of attendants; a retinue.
• n. (anatomy) The distal tendon of a muscle.
• n. A downy or feathery appendage of certain achens, formed of the permanent elongated style.
• n. (surgery) A portion of an incision, at its beginning or end, which does not go through the whole thickness…
• n. One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.
• n. (nautical) A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.
• n. (music) The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.
• n. (mining) A tailing.
• n. (architecture) The bottom or lower portion of a member or part such as a slate or tile.
• n. (colloquial, dated) A tailcoat.
• v. (transitive) To follow and observe surreptitiously.
• v. (architecture) To hold by the end; said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; with in…
• v. (nautical) To swing with the stern in a certain direction; said of a vessel at anchor.
• v. To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded.
• v. To pull or draw by the tail.
• adj. (law) Limited; abridged; reduced; curtailed.
• n. (law) Limitation of inheritance to certain heirs.

track

• n. A mark left by something that has passed along.
• n. A mark or impression left by the foot, either of man or animal.
• n. The entire lower surface of the foot; said of birds, etc.
• n. A road or other similar beaten path.
• n. Physical course; way.
• n. A path or course laid out for a race, for exercise, etc.
• n. The direction and progress of someone or something; path.
• n. (railways) The way or rails along which a train moves.
• n. A tract or area, such as of land.
• n. Awareness of something, especially when arising from close monitoring.
• n. (automotive) The distance between two opposite wheels on a same axletree (also track width).
• n. (automotive) Short for caterpillar track.
• n. (cricket) The pitch.
• n. Sound stored on a record.
• n. The physical track on a record.
• n. (music) A song or other relatively short piece of music, on a record, separated from others by a short…
• n. A circular (never-ending) data storage unit on a side of magnetic or optical disk, divided into sectors.
• n. (uncountable, sports) The racing events of track and field; track and field in general.
• n. A session talk on a conference.
• v. To continue observing over time.
• v. (transitive) To follow the tracks of.
• v. (transitive or intransitive) To create a musical recording (a track).

train

• n. Elongated portion.
• n. Connected sequence of people or things.
• v. (intransitive) To practice an ability.
• v. (transitive) To teach and form by practice; to educate; to exercise with discipline.
• v. (intransitive) To improve one's fitness.
• v. To proceed in sequence.
• v. (transitive) To move (a gun) laterally so that it points in a different direction.
• v. (transitive, horticulture) To encourage (a plant or branch) to grow in a particular direction or shape,…
• v. (mining) To trace (a lode or any mineral appearance) to its head.
• v. (transitive, video games) To create a trainer for; to apply cheats to (a game).
• v. (obsolete) To draw along; to trail; to drag.
• v. (obsolete) To draw by persuasion, artifice, or the like; to attract by stratagem; to entice; to allure.
• n. (obsolete) Treachery; deceit.
• n. (obsolete) A trick or stratagem.
• n. (obsolete) A trap for animals; a snare.
• n. (obsolete) A lure; a decoy.

travel

• v. (intransitive) To be on a journey, often for pleasure or business and with luggage; to go from one place…
• v. (intransitive) To pass from here to there; to move or transmit; to go from one place to another.
• v. (intransitive, basketball) To move illegally by walking or running without dribbling the ball.
• v. (transitive) To travel throughout (a place).
• v. (transitive) To force to journey.
• v. (obsolete) To labour; to travail.
• n. The act of traveling.
• n. pl A series of journeys.
• n. pl An account of one's travels.
• n. The activity or traffic along a route or through a given point.
• n. The working motion of a piece of machinery; the length of a mechanical stroke.
• n. (obsolete) Labour; parturition; travail.