To go from one place to another, especially over a long distance.
From Old French *travaillier* “to toil, labor, suffer,” related to English *travail* “hard work or pain.” Travel used to imply difficulty and struggle, because journeys were once dangerous and exhausting.
The word hints that traveling was originally more like surviving than vacationing. Every easy plane trip today sits on top of a history where going 100 miles could mean blisters, bandits, and broken wheels.
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