Traveler

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Traveler or traveller may refer to:

  • one who travels, especially to distant lands

Sociology

  • Drifter (person), a person who is continually travelling without a home or job
  • Itinerant, a person who travels from place to place with no fixed home
    • Nomad, a person who does not stay long in the same place, a wanderer
  • Perpetual traveler, a traveller / migrant who is not considered a legal resident of any country
    • Tourist, a person who is travelling or visiting a place for pleasure

People

  • English Travellers (disambiguation)
  • Scottish Travellers, a broad term referring to indigenous Highland Traveller's Ceàrdannan or other groups
  • Showmen, people involved in funfairs and the like
  • New Age travellers, groups of people who often espouse New Age and/or hippie beliefs, and usually travel between music festivals and fairs
    • Rainbow Travellers
  • Indigenous Norwegian Travellers, itinerant ethnic minority group in Norway
  • Irish Travellers or Pavees, traditionally nomadic people of Irish origin living predominantly in Ireland and Great Britain
  • Norwegian and Swedish Travellers, a traditionally nomadic people in Scandinavia, sometimes related to the Romani people
  • Romani people, ethnic group living mostly in Europe, who trace their origins to medieval India
  • Kale (Welsh Romanies)

Places

The arts

Film

Literature

  • The Traveler (novel), 2005 novel by John Twelve Hawks
  • The Traveler: An American Odyssey in the Himalayas, 1993 book by Eric Hansen
  • The Traveller (1954 novel), time-travel story by Richard Matheson
  • Traveller (novel), 1988 historical novel by Richard Adams about General Robert E. Lee's horse of the same name
  • Traveler (novel series), a series of post-apocalyptic novels written by multiple writers under the pseudonym D. B. Drumm
  • The Traveller; or, a Prospect of Society, poem by Oliver Goldsmith
  • The Traveller (character), the hero of James Herbert's graphic novel, The City
  • Travelers, group of social outcasts in the novel Earthworks
  • Travelers, fictional characters from The Pendragon Adventure series by D. J. MacHale

Music

Albums
Songs

Television

  • Traveler (Star Trek), fictional character in Star Trek: The Next Generation
  • Traveler (TV series), short-lived 2007 American drama-thriller television series that ran on ABC
  • "Travelers" (Stargate Atlantis), season 4 episode of Stargate Atlantis
  • Travelers (The X-Files), season 5 episode of The X-Files

Theatre

  • Traveler curtain, a curtain that opens and closes horizontally using a series of pulleys

Science and engineering

Animals

Mechanics

Vehicles

Ships

  • HMS Traveller, a wooden paddle vessel purchased in 1839 and sold into mercantile service in 1844
  • HMS Traveller, an Albacore-class wooden screw gunboat launched in 1856 and broken up by 1863
  • HMS Traveller (N48), a T-class submarine launched in 1941 and sunk by an unknown cause in 1942
  • USS Traveler (SP-122), a United States Navy patrol boat in commission from 1917 to 1919
  • USS Traveller (1805), a United States Navy supply boat in commission in 1805

Society

Entertainment

Games

  • Starship Traveller, roleplaying gamebook written by Steve Jackson
  • Traveller (role-playing game), series of related science fiction role-playing games, first published in 1977 by Game Designers' Workshop
  • Traveling sheet, used to record scores in the card game of duplicate bridge

Science fiction

  • Time traveler (disambiguation)

Organizations

Other

See also

  • Travel (disambiguation)
  • The Travellers (disambiguation)
  • Backpacking (travel), a term that has historically been used to denote a form of low-cost, independent international travel
  • Lifestyle travelling, a type of alternative lifestyle practised by people who travel for many years, usually from country to country
  • All pages with titles containing "Traveler"
  • All pages beginning with "Traveler"
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