verb
circumnavigate
sur-kum-NAV-i-gayt/ˌsɜːrkəmˈnævɪɡeɪt/
To travel all the way around something.
The sailors plan to circumnavigate the island and return to the same harbor.
Etymology
The pieces mean “sail around,” and the word originally referred to passing around something by water. Its broader travel sense retains the idea of a complete circuit.
In context
I mean everything is so far away but angles help us quite a lot imagine it like they did in ancient times a celestial sphere surrounds the Earth if we circumnavigate this sphere we get a circle
More examples
- Her expedition circumnavigated the globe.
- They found a way to circumnavigate the administrative obstacle.
- He is circumnavigating the lake by kayak.
Forms
circumnavigate · circumnavigates · circumnavigated · circumnavigating
Similar words
- cross
- Cross goes from one side to another; circumnavigate travels around the whole object.