Traveler

Traveler or traveller (see American and British English spelling differences) commonly refers to one who travels, especially to distant lands.

It may also refer to:

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)
• Scottish Travellers, a broad term referring to indigenous Highland Traveller's Ceàrdannan or other groups including Gypsy/Traveller's of Romani descent or Showmen in Scotland
• Showmen, can include but not restricted to Occupational Traveller's involved in funfairs and members of the Showmen's Guild of Great Britain being the largest. Each western country will have its own variant of showmen.
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Canadian Travellers,

Places

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

The arts

Film

• The Traveller (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
• Travellers (film), a 2011 British film directed by Kris McManus
• Traveller (music video), Linde Nijland's official music video by Sam Chegini

Literature

• The Traveler (novel), 2005 novel by John Twelve Hawks
• The Traveler: An American Odyssey in the Himalayas, 1993 book by Eric Hansen
• The Traveller (1954 novel), time-travel story by Richard Matheson
• Traveller (novel), 1988 historical novel by Richard Adams about General Robert E. Lee's horse of the same name
• Traveler (novel series), a series of post-apocalyptic novels written by multiple writers under the pseudonym D. B. Drumm
• 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 The Pendragon Adventure series by D. J. MacHale

Music

• The Travellers (band)
• Traveller (Christy Moore album), 2000
• Traveller (Slough Feg album), 2003
• Traveler (Colin James album), 2003
• Traveler (Steve Roach album), 1983
• Traveler (Hitomi album), 2004
• Traveler (Trey Anastasio album), 2012
• The Traveller, an album by Shed, 2010
• The Traveller, an album by Tineke Postma, 2009
• Travellers, an album by Nucleus Torn, 2010
• "Traveller" (song), a 2004 single by Aiko Kayo
• "The Traveller", a song from Joe Satriani's 2002 studio album, Strange Beautiful Music
• "The Traveller", a song from A Flock of Seagulls's 1983 studio album, Listen
• "The Traveller", a song from Chris de Burgh's 1980 album, Eastern Wind
• "Traveller", a song from Linde Nijland's 2010 album, A Musical Journey

Television

• Traveler (Star Trek), fictional character in Star Trek: The Next Generation
• Traveler (TV series), short-lived 2007 American drama-thriller television series that ran on ABC
• "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 (mascot), official mascot of University of Southern California

Mechanics

• Mechanical traveller, part of a ship or machine

Vehicles

• International Harvester Scout, one of the first production American civilian off-road sport utility vehicles

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 (game), series of related science fiction role-playing games, first published in 1977 by Game Designers' Workshop
• Traveling sheet, used to record scores in the card game of duplicate bridge

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

Politics

• Fellow traveler, a socio-political term

See also

• Backpacking (travel), a term that has historically been used to denote 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 titles containing "Traveler"
• All pages beginning with "Traveler"