Travel
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Travel is the transport of people on a trip or journey. Reasons for travel include:
- Tourism—travel for recreation. This may apply to the travel itself, or the travel may just be the necessary investment to arrive at a desired location.
- Visiting friends and family
- Trade
- Commuting–going to various routine activities, such as work or meetings.
- Migration—travel to begin life somewhere else; nomadic people do this
- Pilgrimages—travel for religious reasons
The word originates from the Middle English word travailen ("to toil"), which comes from the French word travailler ("travail").
Travel or traveling is also a name applied to a specific violation in the game of basketball. See Traveling (basketball term).
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In Fiction
- To Travel or Traveling refers to using a Gateway (in fiction) or 'fold' in the pattern created by either Saidar or Saidin to move from one place to another in The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan.
- Travels is also the title of a non-fiction novel by Michael Crichton.
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See also
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External links
- Instatravel Travel site offering news and updates on worldwide travel
- See Wikitravel at wikitravel.org for more travelling information.
