itinerant
Always on roads
Itinerant describes someone who travels from place to place, especially for work: an itinerant preacher, itinerant farmworkers, an itinerant musician.
The word often implies a pattern of temporary stops rather than aimless wandering—circuit judges, traveling salesmen, migrant laborers.
As a noun, an itinerant is such a person: The town attracted itinerants looking for seasonal work.
Rootless, roving person
- wayfarerTraveler, especially walking
- drifterAimless, rootless traveler
- ramblerLeisurely rural hiker
- roverDrifter or space explorer
voyager · journeyer · sojourner · pilgrim · trekker · backpacker · globetrotter · explorer
Itinerant without fixed address
- trampWandering homeless person
- vagabondHomeless, aimless wanderer
- bumIdle vagrant
- drifterAimless, rootless traveler
homeless · down-and-out · derelict · streetwise · panhandler · beggar · boxcar · transient
Religious outreach worker
- preacherReligious sermon deliverer
- evangelistZealous advocate or preacher
- mendicantOne who begs
- friarMendicant order member
pilgrim · palmer · crusader · sadhu · dervish · apostle · proselytizer
Middle Eastern nomadic herder
- TuaregSaharan Berber ethnic group
- RomaniNomadic ethnic group
- TravellerItinerant ethnic community member
- pastoralistGrazer of livestock
herder · caravan · yurt · ger · encampment · tribe · clan · steppe
wanderer
Rootless, roving person
rover · voyager · journeyer · sojourner · pilgrim · trekker · backpacker · globetrotter · explorer · adventurer
hobo
Itinerant without fixed address
drifter · homeless · down-and-out · derelict · streetwise · panhandler · beggar · boxcar · transient · rootless
missionary
Religious outreach worker
- preacherReligious sermon deliverer
- evangelistZealous advocate or preacher
- mendicantOne who begs
friar · pilgrim · palmer · crusader · sadhu · dervish · apostle · proselytizer
Bedouin
Middle Eastern nomadic herder
- TuaregSaharan Berber ethnic group
- RomaniNomadic ethnic group
- TravellerItinerant ethnic community member
pastoralist · herder · caravan · yurt · ger · encampment · tribe · clan · steppe · desert
peddler
Roving small-goods merchant
trader · salesman · vendor · huckster · fairground · showman · busker · trouper · barnstormer · carny
seasonal
Recurring at fixed intervals
bracero · temp · journeyman
- movementwalk, move, go, run, jump
- nomadsnomad, nomadism, Bedouin, wanderer, roaming
- wanderingwandering, wander, wanderer, roaming, roam
- wandererswanderer, hikers, vagabond, wanderers, drifter
- evangelismgospel outreach, evangelize, evangelist, born again, evangelizing
- medieval travelerspilgrim, merchant, crusader, messenger, courier
itinerantstationary
Not in motion
sedentary · static · immobile · motionless · nonmoving
- travel itineraryPlanned route and schedule
- travel itinerariesPlanned routes and stops
- itinerant workersEmployees moving between locations
- flight itineraryRecord of booked flights
- event itineraryScheduled activities listing
- itinerant preacherNomadic religious orator
itinerary, itineraries, itinerants, itinerate, itinerant worker