annual pilgrimage

Traditional yearly trip

An annual pilgrimage is a journey made once a year to a place of special significance—religious, personal, or cultural.

The phrase often applies literally to sacred sites: Muslims make the annual pilgrimage to Mecca.

But it extends to any yearly return: our annual pilgrimage to the beach house, the annual pilgrimage to Graceland.

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vision quest · tradition · family tradition · holy site · religious duty · meditation retreat · temple · introspection · Mecca · homecoming · ancestral home · old country · once a year · Lourdes · cathedral · relics · tribute · Camino de Santiago

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Euphemism for dying

purpose/sacredness

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Involuntary removal from home

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Fixed long-term dwelling

staying home · sedentary lifestyle · rootedness · immobility · sedentary life

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