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
  • Rogue (vagrant)
  • Vagabond (person)
  • Vagrancy (people)
• 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)
• 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
• Kale (Welsh Romanies)
• 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
• 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
• Scottish Travellers, a broad term referring to indigenous Highland Traveller's Ceàrdannan or other groups
• Showmen, people involved in funfairs and the like

Places

• Traveler Mountain, a mountain in Maine; the highest peak is called "The Traveler"

Art, entertainment, and media

Fictitious entities

• 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 D.J. MacHale's The Pendragon Adventure series

Films

• The Traveler (1974 film), an Iranian drama directed by Abbas Kiarostami
• Traveller (1981 film), an Irish film starring Davy Spillane
• Traveller (1997 film), a 1997 American film starring Bill Paxton and Mark Wahlberg
• Traveller (1999 film), a 1999 Brazilian film
• The Traveller (2009 film), an Egyptian film directed by Ahmed Maher
• The Traveler (2010 film), an American horror film starring Val Kilmer
• Traveller (2012 film), Linde Nijland's official music video by Sam Chegini
• Travelers: Jigen Keisatsu ("Travelers: Dimension Police") a 2013 Japanese science fiction film directed by Koichi Sakamoto

Literature

• Traveler (novel series), a series of post-apocalyptic novels written by multiple writers under the pseudonym D. B. Drumm
• Traveler, 2007 book by Ron McLarty
• Traveller (novel), 1988 historical novel by Richard Adams, about General Robert E. Lee's horse of the same name
• The Traveler (novel), 2005 novel by John Twelve Hawks
• The Traveller; or, a Prospect of Society (poem), poem by Oliver Goldsmith
• The Traveler, by John Katzenbach 1987
• The Traveler, by Don Coldsmith 1991
• The Traveller, time-travel story by Richard Matheson
• The Traveler: An American Odyssey in the Himalayas, 1993 book by Eric Hansen
• "The Mental Traveller", a poem by William Blake

Periodicals

• The Traveler (magazine), a tourism magazine

Music

Groups

• The Travellers (band), a Canadian folk singing group

Albums

• Traveller (Christy Moore album)
• Traveller (Slough Feg album)
• Traveller (Jorn album)
• Traveler (Colin James album)
• Traveler (Steve Roach album)
• Traveler (Hitomi album)
• Traveler (Trey Anastasio album)
• Traveller (Anoushka Shankar album)
• Traveller (Chris Stapleton album)
• The Traveler (Kenny Barron album)
• The Traveler, an album by Billy Cobham
• The Traveller, an album by Shed
• The Traveller, an album by Tineke Postma
• Travellers, an album by Nucleus Torn

Songs

• "Traveller" (Aiko Kayo song), a Japanese song by Aiko Kayo
• "Traveller" (Chris Stapleton song), a 2015 song by Chris Stapleton
• "Traveller", title track of Traveller
• "Traveller", title track of Traveller
• "The Traveller", a song by Joe Satriani from the album Strange Beautiful Music
• "The Traveller", a song by A Flock of Seagulls from the album Listen
• "The Traveller", a song by Chris de Burgh from the album Eastern Wind
• "The Traveller", a song by Beach House from the album Thank Your Lucky Stars
• "The Traveler", a song by Scale the Summit from the album The Migration

Television

Series

• Traveler (TV series), short-lived 2007 American drama-thriller television series that ran on ABC
• Travelers (TV series), 2016 Canadian science fiction drama

Episodes

• The Traveler (Star Trek), fictional character in Star Trek: The Next Generation
• "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

• Traveller (horse) (1857–1871), owned by General Robert E. Lee
• Traveler (horse) (1880–1912), American Quarter horse foundation sire
• Traveler (mascot), official mascot of University of Southern California
• Costaconvexa centrostrigaria or Traveller, a moth

Mechanics

• Mechanical traveller, part of a ship or machine

Vehicles

• International Harvester Scout Traveller, a variant of the International Scout, one of the first production American sport utility vehicles
• Force Traveller, minibus/cargo van

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 scoreslip, used to record scores in the card game of duplicate bridge
• The Traveler, a giant, possibly sentient orb from Destiny

Science fiction

• Time traveler (disambiguation)

Organizations

• The Travelers Companies, an American insurance company
• Traveller's Inn, a Canadian hotel chain
• Travelers Aid International, provides assistance to travelers

Other uses

• Beechcraft Model 17 Staggerwing, a modified version of this aircraft, used during World War II, was called a Traveler (Traveller in British use)
• Fellow traveller, a socio-political term

See also

• Travel (disambiguation)
• The Travellers (disambiguation)
• Backpacking (travel), 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 a title containing Traveler
• All pages beginning with "Traveler"