Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Navigation (Locomotion by water, or air)

Nouns
  • navigation
  • aquatics
  • boating, yachting
  • ship etc. Ship
  • oar, paddle, screw, sail, canvas, aileron. natation, swimming
  • fin, flipper, fish's tail. aerostation, aerostatics, aeronautics
  • balloonery
  • balloon etc. Ship
  • ballooning, aviation, airmanship
  • flying, flight, volitation
  • wing, pinion
  • rocketry, space travel, astronautics, orbital mechanics, orbiting. voyage, sail, cruise, passage, circumnavigation, periplus
  • headway, sternway, leeway
  • fairway. mariner etc. Mariner. flight, trip
  • shuttle, run, airlift.
Verbs
  • sail
  • put to sea etc. (depart) [Initial motion from.] Departure
  • take ship, get under way
  • set sail, spread sail, spread canvas
  • gather way, have way on
  • make sail, carry sail
  • plow the waves, plow the deep, plow the main, plow the ocean
  • walk the waters. navigate, warp, luff, scud, boom, kedge
  • drift, course, cruise, coast
  • hug the shore, hug the land
  • circumnavigate. ply the oar, row, paddle, pull, scull, punt, steam. swim, float
  • buffet the waves, ride the storm, skim, dive, wade. fly, be wafted, hover, soar, flutter, jet, orbit, rocket
  • take wing, take a flight, take off, ascend, blast off, land, alight
  • wing one's flight, wing one's way
  • aviate
  • parachute, jump, glide.
Adjectives
  • sailing etc. v.
  • volant, aerostatic
  • seafaring, nautical, maritime, naval
  • seagoing, coasting
  • afloat
  • navigable
  • aerial, aeronautic
  • grallatory.
Adverbs
  • under way, under sail, under canvas, under steam
  • on the wing, in flight, in orbit.
Phrases
  • bon voyage
  • spread the thin oar and catch the driving spread the thin oar and catch the driving gale" [Pope].