travel routes

Ways between places

Travel routes are paths or courses followed to get from one place to another.

The term encompasses highways, shipping lanes, flight paths, and hiking trails—any established way of traveling between destinations.

We mapped out several travel routes before the road trip.

Ancient travel routes connected trading centers across continents.

Opposites
path vs. endpoint

travel routesdestinations

Places one travels to

endpoints · starting points · terminals · terminus · journey's end

mobility vs. fixedness

travel routespermanent residence

Fixed long-term dwelling

staying put · home base · immobility · rootedness

planned path vs. aimless movement

travel routeswandering

Traveling with no fixed course

drifting · meandering · roaming · getting lost · exploration

Family

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