What is the Oxford Dictionary meaning of Travelling?
(US English) -ing form traveling. /'trævl??/ /'trævl??/ Idioms. [intransitive, transitive] to go from one place to another, especially over a long distance.
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First people who started to travel for enjoyment only were, I'm sure you won't be surprised, old Romans. Wealthy Romans would often go to their summer villas. And it was purely for leisure. They could, of course, start doing that because they invented something quite crucial for travelling – roads.
One difference, though, is that travelling usually implies a specific person (or people) going to a specific destination, while travel just describes movement in general.
Traveling comes from the Old French word travil, meaning “suffering or painful effort” or “trouble” as in traveling a long distance in a covered wagon.
At the beginning of the century, U.S. citizens and immigrants to the country traveled primarily by horseback or on the rivers. After a while, crude roads were built and then canals. Before long the railroads crisscrossed the country moving people and goods with greater efficiency.
Groups of modern humans—Homo sapiens—began their migration out of Africa some 60,000 years ago. Some of our early ancestors kept exploring until they spread to all corners of Earth. How far and fast they went depended on climate, the pressures of population, and the invention of boats and other technologies.