Circumnavigate
verb
To travel completely around something, especially by ship or airplane.
Ferdinand Magellan led the first expedition to circumnavigate the globe.
Often appears as...
- circumnavigate the globe
- circumnavigate the earth
verb
To travel completely around something, especially by ship or airplane.
Ferdinand Magellan led the first expedition to circumnavigate the globe.
Often appears as...
- circumnavigate the globe
- circumnavigate the earth
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Pro Tip 1/3Journey's Scope
Used when describing a complete journey around large areas, often global in scale.
She plans to circumnavigate the world in 80 days.
Pro Tip 2/3Exploratory Tone
Conveys a sense of adventure, often used when recounting epic or historical voyages.
The documentary detailed how the sailors circumnavigated the treacherous Arctic waters.
Pro Tip 3/3Nautical Term
Originally a maritime term, but now also used for air travel and space exploration.
The pilot successfully circumnavigated the storm system.
Pro Tip 1/3Journey's Scope
Used when describing a complete journey around large areas, often global in scale.
She plans to circumnavigate the world in 80 days.
Pro Tip 2/3Exploratory Tone
Conveys a sense of adventure, often used when recounting epic or historical voyages.
The documentary detailed how the sailors circumnavigated the treacherous Arctic waters.
Pro Tip 3/3Nautical Term
Originally a maritime term, but now also used for air travel and space exploration.
The pilot successfully circumnavigated the storm system.
Pro Tip 1/3Journey's Scope
Used when describing a complete journey around large areas, often global in scale.
She plans to circumnavigate the world in 80 days.
Pro Tip 2/3Exploratory Tone
Conveys a sense of adventure, often used when recounting epic or historical voyages.
The documentary detailed how the sailors circumnavigated the treacherous Arctic waters.
Pro Tip 3/3Nautical Term
Originally a maritime term, but now also used for air travel and space exploration.
The pilot successfully circumnavigated the storm system.
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Video examples
Mike Libecki & Cory...
yeah the really beautiful thing for me about just doing the circumnavigation looking for the route is it always just takes a week or two to get used to the weather and then you sort of forget that there's warmth other places in the world you sort of get involved with this
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Around the World on Sun...
in aviation history to circumnavigate the globe with no fuel. BERTRAND PICCARD, If you want exploration, very often you need to get out of the system, because the system is paralyzed by common assumptions. It's not the people selling candles who invented the light bulb.
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Amelia Earhart Part II:...
weird beautiful world on the first episode in our series you heard about the eight decade mystery surrounding amelia earhart's disappearance on this episode we're charting a new course for amelia one where she actually completes her circumnavigation of the globe and
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Amelia Earhart Part I:...
times across this continent that voice could only belong to one person amelia earhart it's so confident so self-assured it was recorded at the height of her fame a world-famous career that was to be topped off by a circumnavigation of the earth
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How Magellan circumnaviga...
The battered vessel and its 18 sailors were all that remained of a fleet that had departed three years before. Yet her voyage was considered a success for the "Victoria" had achieved something the first circumnavigation of the globe.
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My Life As an Adventure...
but sometimes your expedition partners, or sometimes your friends don't make the best expedition partners. So we had been talking about a much larger circumnavigation, but we decided we should probably make sure we like each other,
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The opportunity of...
unscathed or unmarked by the experience, as if my successes in life have come about from an ability to sidestep or circumnavigate the presumed pitfalls of a life with prosthetics, or what other people perceive as my disability.
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Børge Ousland: Breaking...
here to listen to my stories which today will be mainly about my expedition to Franz Josef land also the circumnavigation of the Arctic which we did a couple of years ago we have of course these two great explorers roll
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Geographic Bee 2010 - FL...
first person to circumnavigate the world and he was very confident doing that and I think also we really find discovering a place that no one else had ever seen before and coming back to tell about it
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Safari Live - Day 272 PIPE...
to the inca humus circumnavigation you know what the most irritating aspect of this afternoon is and there's very little else that gets me very irritated but I oh dear hello hello
Video examples
Mike Libecki & Cory...
yeah the really beautiful thing for me about just doing the circumnavigation looking for the route is it always just takes a week or two to get used to the weather and then you sort of forget that there's warmth other places in the world you sort of get involved with this
Video examples
Around the World on Sun...
in aviation history to circumnavigate the globe with no fuel. BERTRAND PICCARD, If you want exploration, very often you need to get out of the system, because the system is paralyzed by common assumptions. It's not the people selling candles who invented the light bulb.
Video examples
Amelia Earhart Part II:...
weird beautiful world on the first episode in our series you heard about the eight decade mystery surrounding amelia earhart's disappearance on this episode we're charting a new course for amelia one where she actually completes her circumnavigation of the globe and
Video examples
Amelia Earhart Part I:...
times across this continent that voice could only belong to one person amelia earhart it's so confident so self-assured it was recorded at the height of her fame a world-famous career that was to be topped off by a circumnavigation of the earth
Video examples
How Magellan circumnaviga...
The battered vessel and its 18 sailors were all that remained of a fleet that had departed three years before. Yet her voyage was considered a success for the "Victoria" had achieved something the first circumnavigation of the globe.
Video examples
My Life As an Adventure...
but sometimes your expedition partners, or sometimes your friends don't make the best expedition partners. So we had been talking about a much larger circumnavigation, but we decided we should probably make sure we like each other,
Video examples
The opportunity of...
unscathed or unmarked by the experience, as if my successes in life have come about from an ability to sidestep or circumnavigate the presumed pitfalls of a life with prosthetics, or what other people perceive as my disability.
Video examples
Børge Ousland: Breaking...
here to listen to my stories which today will be mainly about my expedition to Franz Josef land also the circumnavigation of the Arctic which we did a couple of years ago we have of course these two great explorers roll
Video examples
Geographic Bee 2010 - FL...
first person to circumnavigate the world and he was very confident doing that and I think also we really find discovering a place that no one else had ever seen before and coming back to tell about it
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 272 PIPE...
to the inca humus circumnavigation you know what the most irritating aspect of this afternoon is and there's very little else that gets me very irritated but I oh dear hello hello
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Quote examples
Neil MacGregor
British Historian
If you are born in 1564, your dislocation from your parents' experience is very profound. You are the first generation who will have had all your religious experience in English, the first to have a countryman circumnavigate the globe. All the power and economic structures of the world are changing around you.
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Michael Gerber
American Writer
Product life' is measured in months, not years, and as soon as you introduce a 'product,' understand that others in your business are going to reverse engineer it to duplicate the results after they circumnavigate the patents, the trademarks, and the intellectual property.
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Don Kardong
American Athlete
New nemeses keep racing fresh, but I also find challenge in going longer, with only the distance as foe. I run my first 50-mile race, journey across the Grand Canyon and back, circumnavigate Mount St. Helens.
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Donald A. Wollheim
American Writer
While the circumnavigation of the solar system seems farfetched, it may not be once the problem of effective anti-gravitational control is solved.
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Lesley Sharp
English Actress
The way you look, the way you sound, is always something that you have to circumnavigate.
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Neil MacGregor
British Historian
If you are born in 1564, your dislocation from your parents' experience is very profound. You are the first generation who will have had all your religious experience in English, the first to have a countryman circumnavigate the globe. All the power and economic structures of the world are changing around you.
Quote examples
Michael Gerber
American Writer
Product life' is measured in months, not years, and as soon as you introduce a 'product,' understand that others in your business are going to reverse engineer it to duplicate the results after they circumnavigate the patents, the trademarks, and the intellectual property.
Quote examples
Don Kardong
American Athlete
New nemeses keep racing fresh, but I also find challenge in going longer, with only the distance as foe. I run my first 50-mile race, journey across the Grand Canyon and back, circumnavigate Mount St. Helens.
Quote examples
Donald A. Wollheim
American Writer
While the circumnavigation of the solar system seems farfetched, it may not be once the problem of effective anti-gravitational control is solved.
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Lesley Sharp
English Actress
The way you look, the way you sound, is always something that you have to circumnavigate.
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