to circumnavigate

Examples

• All

• Magellan's crew circumnavigated the globe in a grueling exercise that took three years.

  Academic text (2012)

• We set out to circumnavigate the globe.

  The Bounty (1984)

• So he would sail West across the vast Pacific Ocean and circumnavigate the Earth in order to get home.

• I have failed completely in my attempt to round Cape Horn... and circumnavigate the globe.

  The Bounty (1984)

• For the past three years, Belliveau had been walking from country to country with the goal of circumnavigating the globe on foot.

• From January 1971 to August 1973, she and her then-husband, Pete Eastman, circumnavigated the globe in a 28-foot boat.

  Blog text (4)

• We set out to circumnavigate the globe on a sailing expedition.

• Ferdinand Magellan was the first to circumnavigate the world in the 16th century.

Synonyms

C

to circle

vsto circumnavigate

210 1.8

To move around something in a circle

focuses on completing a full trip all the way around something, often worldwide

S

to sail around

vsto circumnavigate

7 3.2

Travel by boat around a place like a coast or lake

is used for travel by ship or plane, not limited to boats

C

to compass

vsto circumnavigate

• Archaic

7.7

To travel all the way around something, for example the world or an island

is the single-word label for that same complete journey around something

How Far

to orbit

• Specialized

126 3.9

to circumnavigate

6 8.3

to circumambulate

• Formal

1 9.9

to walk around

46 1.1

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology