Roget's Thesaurus

#267. Navigation

Nouns

navigation; aquatics; boating, yachting; ship etc. 273; oar, paddle, screw, sail, canvas, aileron. natation, swimming; fin, flipper, fish's tail. aerostation, aerostatics, aeronautics; balloonery; balloon etc. 273; ballooning, aviation, airmanship; flying, flight, volitation; wing, pinion; rocketry, space travel, astronautics, orbital mechanics, orbiting. voyage, sail, cruise, passage, circumnavigation, periplus; headway, sternway, leeway; fairway. mariner etc. 269. flight, trip; shuttle, run, airlift.

Verbs

sail; put to sea etc. (depart) 293; take ship, get under way; set sail, spread sail, spread canvas; gather way, have way on; make sail, carry sail; plow the waves, plow the deep, plow the main, plow the ocean; walk the waters. navigate, warp, luff, scud, boom, kedge; drift, course, cruise, coast; hug the shore, hug the land; circumnavigate. ply the oar, row, paddle, pull, scull, punt, steam. swim, float; buffet the waves, ride the storm, skim, effleurer [Fr.], dive, wade. fly, be wafted, hover, soar, flutter, jet, orbit, rocket; take wing, take a flight, take off, ascend, blast off, land, alight; wing one's flight, wing one's way; aviate; parachute, jump, glide.

Adjectives

sailing etc. v.; volant, aerostatic; seafaring, nautical, maritime, naval; seagoing, coasting; afloat; navigable; aerial, aeronautic; grallatory.

Adverbs

under way, under sail, under canvas, under steam; on the wing, in flight, in orbit.

Phrases

bon voyage; spread the thin oar and catch the driving gale [Pope].