7.2.4 Travel

Use this domain for words referring to traveling--to move a long distance. The words in this domain may imply that the person has to sleep somewhere other than his home.

OMC Codes: 
484 Travel
480 Travel and Transportation
485 Travel Services
486 Regulation of Travel
487 Routes
488 Warehousing
489 Transportation
167 External Migration
Immigration and Emigration
Louw Nida Codes: 
15R Go Around, Surround
15B Travel, Journey
  • What words refer to going on a journey?
    go on a journey, journey, trip, passage, tour
  • What words refer to moving from place to place?
    travel, move from place to place, move around, voyage
  • What words refer to moving from place to place and then returning to the first place?
    circulate, go on a circuit, circumnavigate
  • What words refer to going to an unknown place in order to discover what is there?
    explore
  • What words refer to going somewhere without intending to return?
    move away, leave forever, emigrate, immigrate
  • What words refer to traveling to another country?
    go abroad, go overseas
  • What words refer to a person who is traveling?
    traveler, passenger, tourist
  • What words describe someone who has traveled a lot?
    well traveled, cosmopolitan,
  • What words refer to a place where a traveler can stay or eat?
    hotel, motel, inn, campground, restaurant

    • 7.2.4.1 Travel by land

    Use this domain for words related to traveling by land.

    OMC Codes: 
    490 Land Transport
    491 Highways and Bridges
    492 Animal Transport
    493 Vehicles
    494 Highway Transport
    495 Auxiliary Highway Services
    496 Railways
    497 Rail Transport
    498 Terminal Facilities
    499 Highway and Railway Construction
  • What words refer to moving by land?
    travel overland, overland,
  • What words refer to starting a vehicle?
    start, accelerate, pull out
  • What words refer to stopping a vehicle?
    stop, brake, park

    • 7.2.4.1.1 Vehicle

    Use this domain for things used to move.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    6I Vehicles
  • What kinds of vehicles are there?
    vehicle, car, auto, truck, motorcycle, bicycle, cycle, bus, taxi
  • What kinds of vehicles are used by children or for play?
    tricycle, scooter, skateboard, roller-skates, roller blades, ice-skates
  • What kinds of vehicles are pulled by animals?
    wagon, cart, chariot, carriage
  • What words refer to moving in a vehicle?
    drive, cycle, pedal, ride
  • What are the parts of a vehicle?
    chassis, body, engine, brake, gas pedal, brakes, gear, steering wheel, windshield, windshield wiper, horn,
  • What are the parts of a bicycle?
    handle bars, kick stand, bike bell, tire pump
  • What are the parts of a wheel?
    wheel, tire, rim, spokes, hub, axle,

    • 7.2.4.1.2 Railroad

    Use this domain for words related to railroads.

  • What words refer to a railroad?
    railroad, railway, station
  • What words refer to a train?
    train, railroad car, engine, caboose, freight train, passenger train, locomotive, freight car, trolley, streetcar
  • What words refer to the tracks?
    tracks, railroad tracks, rail, tie, bed
  • What words refer to moving in a train?
    ride, ride the rails, go on the train
  • What words refer to a person who operates a train?
    engineer, conductor, station master

    • 7.2.4.2 Travel by water

    Use this domain for words related to traveling by water.

    OMC Codes: 
    500 Water and Air Transport
    501 Boats
    502 Navigation
    503 Waterways Improvements
    504 Port Facilities
    505 Water Transport
    Louw Nida Codes: 
    54 Maritime Activities
  • What words refer to traveling on water?
    sail, ship (v), cross (the river, lake)
  • What words refer to getting into a boat?
    embark
  • What words refer to leaving in a boat?
    set sail, sail off
  • What words refer to arriving in a boat?
    land, make land, landfall
  • What words refer to getting out of a boat?
    disembark
  • What words refer to a ship hitting the land?
    run aground, shipwreck, maroon
  • What words refer to the places a ship can go?
    waterway, sea-lane
  • What words refer to a place where a ship comes to land?
    harbor, port, landing, dock, wharf, water break

    • 7.2.4.2.1 Boat

    Use this domain for words related to a boat.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    6H Boats and Parts of Boats
  • What types of boats are there?
    ship, boat, canoe, raft, life raft, lifeboat, ship's boat, surfboard, submarine,
  • What are the parts of a boat?
    bow, stern, starboard, port, deck, gunwale, below decks, mast, spar, crow's nest, figurehead, rudder, helm, superstructure,
  • What equipment is used in a boat?
    oar, paddle, sail, rigging, plank, compass, signal flag
  • What words are used of operating a boat?
    row, paddle, sail, push a boat with a pole, pole a boat, bale out water
  • What words refer to a person who uses a boat?
    sailor, captain

    • 7.2.4.2.2 Swim

    Use this domain for words related to swimming.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    15H' Swim
  • What words refer to swimming?
    swim, dog paddle, stroke, kick, breaststroke, freestyle, backstroke, swim underwater, tread water, wade

    • 7.2.4.2.3 Dive

    Use this domain for words referring to moving under the water.

  • What words refer to diving into water?
    dive, plunge, belly flop, jump in
  • What words refer to sinking under the water?
    sink, go down, go under, submerge
  • What words refer to moving while underwater?
    run submerged, swim underwater
  • What words refer to coming to the surface of the water?
    rise to the surface, surface (v), float to the surface
  • What words refer to drowning?
    drown

    • 7.2.4.3 Fly

    Use this domain for words related to traveling by air.

    OMC Codes: 
    507 Aviation
    506 Aircraft
    508 Airport Facilities
    509 Air Transport
    Louw Nida Codes: 
    15G' Fly
  • What words refer to traveling by air?
    travel by air, fly, aviation
  • What types of airplanes are there?
    airplane, plane, aircraft, balloon, glider, kite
  • What words refer to a person who flies an airplane?
    pilot
  • Where do airplanes land?
    airport, runway, airstrip, landing field

    • 7.2.4.4 Travel in space

    Use this domain for words related to traveling in space.

    Related domains: 
    1.1 Sky
  • What words refer to traveling in space?
    space travel, voyage, orbit
  • What words refer to a vehicle that travels in space?
    spacecraft, spaceship, rocket, space shuttle, space station, satellite, flying saucer
  • What words refer to a person who travels in space?
    astronaut, cosmonaut, spaceman
  • What words refer to a rocket lifting off?
    lift off, lift-off, blast off, launch, launch pad, countdown, mission control
  • What words refer to a spacecraft landing?
    land, reenter, reentry

    • 7.2.4.5 Move to a new house

    Use this domain for words related to permanently leaving your home or country, and for words related to migrating--moving every year to the same places because of the weather and food supplies.

    OMC Codes: 
    166 Internal Migration
  • What words refer to moving to a new house?
    move, move in
  • What words refer to a celebration when moving into a new house?
    housewarming
  • What words refer to leaving home?
    leave, move out, leave home, run away, vacate
  • What words refer to moving to a new country?
    emigrate, immigrate
  • What words refer to migrating?
    migrate

    • 7.2.4.6 Way, route

    Use this domain for words related to the way or route that you take to go somewhere.

  • What words refer to the way to go from one place to another?
    way, how to get, route, directions,
  • What words refer to a short way of getting somewhere?
    shortcut,
  • What refer to telling someone the way?
    tell someone the way, give someone directions, show someone the way, direct,
  • What refer to asking someone the way?
    ask someone the way, ask for directions,
  • What words refer to finding the way?
    find your way, navigate,
  • What do you say to someone when you want them to tell you the way?
    can you tell me the way to, do you know the way to, how do I get to, can you direct me to, is this the way to,

    • 7.2.4.7 Lose your way

    Use this domain for words related to losing your way.

  • What words refer to losing your way?
    be lost, not know where you are, get lost, lose your way

    • 7.2.4.8 Map

    Use this domain for words related to a map--a drawing of the world or part of the world.

    OMC Codes: 
    102 Maps
  • What words refer to a map?
    map, chart, atlas
  • What types of maps are there?
    road map, street map, contour map, geographical map, political map
  • What is a model of the earth called?
    globe
  • What words refer to making a map?
    draw
  • What words refer to using a map?
    read a map, look for something on the map, find something on the map, trace a route
  • What words refer to the symbols on a map?
    symbol, legend, contour line, longitude line, latitude line, parallel
  • What words refer to the relationship between the size of the map and the size of the real land?
    scale, large scale, small scale, projection
  • What other tools are used to find a place?
    compass, sextant