circumnavigate

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To travel completely around somewhere or something, especially by sail.

   We circumnavigated the Mediterranean.

2. 2
   verb

   To circumvent or bypass.

   Rebel of the tournament: Saudi Arabia’s Malek Al Hawsawi, who circumnavigated Fifa’s ban on jewellery by keeping his ring in his mouth.

3. 3
   verb

   To sail around the world.

   Patrick Childress, who solo circumnavigated on a Catalina 27 in 1982, stresses the value of eggs, which will keep at least six weeks if previously unrefrigerated and oiled with vegetable shortening.

4. 4
   verb

   to travel around, either by plane or ship

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin circumnāvigātus, perfect passive participle of circumnāvigō (“sail round something, circumnavigate”), from circum (“about, around”) + nāvigō (“sail, navigate”), from nāvis (“ship”) + agō (“do”). By surface analysis, circum- + navigate.