sea voyage
Trip by ship
A sea voyage is a journey by ship across ocean waters, typically of significant distance or duration.
The term evokes older modes of travel—sailing ships, ocean liners, emigration crossings—more than modern cruise tourism: The sea voyage from Liverpool to New York took two weeks.
It carries connotations of adventure, hardship, or transformation that a simple "boat trip" does not.
- marinerOne who navigates ships
- sailorSeafaring crew member
- navigatorRoute-directing crew member
- cruiseLeisurely ocean voyage
- oceanMassive saltwater body
open water · high seas · boat · circumnavigation · compass · sextant · crow's nest · ship's log · ship · yacht · landfall · trade routes · odyssey · stowaway · chart · passage · seafaring · rough crossing
- epic poetry settingsTroy, Ithaca, underworld, Olympus, battlefield
- Greek travelseafaring, odyssey, galley, trireme, sail
- explorationexploration, explore, expedition, expeditions, voyages
- seafaringship, sailors, ships, sail, sailor
- historic travelGrand Tour, carriage, pilgrimages, wagon, Silk Road
- journeysjourney, odyssey, quest, expedition, trek
sea voyageflight
Aerial journey by aircraft
air travel · overland journey · road trip · train journey · rail travel
sea voyagestaying put
Remaining in place
staying home · sedentary life · standing still · homebound · stasis