Essential Travel Vocabulary and Definitions

Unit 8: Travel Vocabulary

• Bold: Courageous.
• Off you go: You can leave.
• Whitewater: Water in a river that flows fast and strongly over rocks.
• A stroll: A slow walk.
• A hike: A walk in a hilly area.
• No matter: It is not important.
• Overseas: Countries across the sea.
• Help yourself: Take something offered.
• To trade: To exchange.
• To rely: Depend on with full trust or confidence.
• Wits: Intelligence and the ability to think quickly.
• Sake: Purpose.
• Seasoned: Experienced.
• Seeking: Trying to find or get something, especially something that is not a physical object.
• Keying in: Putting information into a computer using a keyboard.
• Have a go: Try or attempt to do something.
• Youth hostel: A place providing cheap accommodation, aimed mainly at young people on walking or cycling tours.
• Delayed: A delayed action mechanism causes a delay on the device it is fitted to, so that it does not work as soon as you switch it on or operate it.
• Check out: Enquire into, examine, inspect, investigate, or look at.
• Campsite: A place where people who are on holiday can stay in tents.
• Passengers: A person travelling in a vehicle such as a bus, boat, or plane, who is not driving or working on it.
• Get around: To overcome a problem or difficulty; or to coax/persuade someone to do or allow something they initially do not want to do.
• Return ticket: A ticket which allows someone to travel to a place and back again.
• Long weekend: A holiday period that includes one or more of the days preceding or following a weekend, in addition to the Saturday and Sunday.
• Journey: An act of travelling from one place to another.
• Accommodation: A room, group of rooms, or building in which someone may live or stay.
• Resort: A place that is frequented for holidays, recreation, or a particular purpose.
• Luggage: Suitcases or other bags in which to pack personal belongings for travelling.
• Overnight: For the duration of a night.
• Package holiday: A holiday organized by a travel agent, with arrangements for transport, accommodation, etc., made at an inclusive price.
• Check in: The action of registering one's presence, typically as a passenger at an airport.
• Border: A line separating two countries, administrative divisions, or other areas.
• Got off: Escape a punishment; be acquitted.
• Pulled into: To arrive at a particular place.
• Get on: Perform or make progress in a specified way.
• Picked up: Collect something that has been left elsewhere.
• Took off: (Of an aircraft or bird) become airborne.
• Set out: Begin a journey.
• Stopped over: Pay a short visit en route to one's ultimate destination.
• Pull out: Withdraw from an undertaking.