armchair travel
Sedentary globe-trotting
Armchair travel is experiencing distant places through books, films, documentaries, or virtual media rather than physically going there.
The armchair suggests comfortable sedentary exploration—you travel in imagination while staying home: During the pandemic, armchair travel kept wanderlust alive.
The term can be affectionate or slightly dismissive, depending on whether it celebrates vicarious adventure or implies a pale substitute for the real thing.
- vicariousExperienced through another
- wanderlustCraving for distant places
- daydreamConscious fantasy while awake
- atlasBound collection of charts
- world mapFlat Earth depiction
travelogue · exotic · far-off lands · postcards · photographs · picture postcard · documentary · guidebook · imagination · explore · distant · longing · couch · escapism · virtual · maps · Google Earth · globe
- travel writingtravelogue, travelogues, exploration journals, exploration tales, expedition journals
- travel presentationstravelogues, slide shows
- travel guidestourist guides, city guides, Lonely Planet, backpacking guide, visitor guides
armchair travelbeing there
State of attending
globetrotting · jet-setting · backpacking · road trip · expedition
armchair traveladventure travel
Tourism seeking thrills
expedition · backpacking · exploration · trekking · overlanding
armchair, travel, chair, chairs, armed, arming, armrest, chaired, chairing