Traveler

Traveler or traveller may refer to:

Types of people

• Drifter (person), a person who is continually travelling without a home or job, also called a vagrant, tramp, hobo, or vagabond
  • Rogue (vagrant), often associated with dishonesty
• Nomad or itinerant, a person who does not stay long in the same place, a wanderer
• Perpetual traveler, a traveler or migrant who is not considered a legal resident of any country
• Showman, a person involved in funfairs and the like
• Tourist, a person who is travelling or visiting a place for pleasure

Specific groups

• English Travellers (disambiguation)
• Indigenous Norwegian Travellers, itinerant ethnic minority group in Norway
• Irish Travellers, traditionally nomadic people of Irish origin living predominantly in Ireland and Great Britain
• Kale (Welsh Romanies)
• New Age travellers, groups of people who often espouse New Age and/or hippie beliefs, and usually travel between music festivals and fairs
  • Rainbow Family
• 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
• Scottish Travellers, a broad term referring to indigenous Highland Traveller's Ceàrdannan or other groups

Animals

• Traveller (horse) (1857–1871), owned by General Robert E. Lee
• Traveler (horse) (1880–1912), American Quarter horse foundation sire

Art, entertainment, and media

Fictional characters

• The Traveler (Star Trek), fictional character in Star Trek: The Next Generation
• The Traveller (James Herbert), the hero of James Herbert's graphic novel, The City
• Travelers, group of social outcasts in the novel Earthworks
• Travelers, fictional characters from D.J. MacHale's The Pendragon Adventure series
• Travelers, fictional time travelers from the eponymous TV series Travelers (TV series)

Film and television

Films

• The Traveler (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
• Traveller (2012 film), Linde Nijland's official music video by Sam Chegini
• Travelers: Jigen Keisatsu ("Travelers: Dimension Police") a 2013 Japanese science fiction film directed by Koichi Sakamoto

TV series

• Traveler (TV series), short-lived 2007 American drama-thriller television series that ran on ABC
• Travelers (TV series), 2016 Canadian science fiction drama

TV episodes

• "Travelers" (Stargate Atlantis), season 4 episode of Stargate Atlantis
• "Travelers" (The X-Files), season 5 episode of The X-Files
• "The Travellers" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World); season 3 episode 2 of the TV series Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World

Gaming

• Traveller (role-playing game), a series of science fiction role-playing games, first published in 1977
• Travellers (card game), a card game of the patience genre
• Travellers, alternative name for the card game of Clock Patience
• The Traveler, a giant, possibly sentient orb from Destiny
• Traveling scoreslip, used to record scores in the card game of duplicate bridge
• Starship Traveller, a roleplaying gamebook written by Steve Jackson

Literature

Books

• Traveler (novel series), a series of post-apocalyptic novels written by multiple writers under the pseudonym D. B. Drumm
• Traveler, 2007 book by Ron McLarty
• Traveller (novel), 1988 historical novel by Richard Adams, about General Robert E. Lee's horse of the same name
• The Traveler (novel), 2005 novel by John Twelve Hawks
• The Traveller; or, a Prospect of Society (poem), poem by Oliver Goldsmith
• The Traveler, by John Katzenbach 1987
• The Traveler, by Don Coldsmith 1991
• The Traveller, time-travel story by Richard Matheson
• The Traveler: An American Odyssey in the Himalayas, 1993 book by Eric Hansen
• "The Mental Traveller", a poem by William Blake

Periodicals

• The Traveler (magazine), a tourism magazine
• Journal of the Travellers Aid Society, an online magazine based on the aforementioned game

Music

Groups

• The Travellers (band), a Canadian folk singing group
• Travelers 3, a US vocal group

Albums

• Traveller (Christy Moore album)
• Traveller (Slough Feg album)
• Traveller (Jorn album)
• Traveler (Colin James album)
• Traveler (Steve Roach album)
• Traveler (Hitomi album)
• Traveler (Trey Anastasio album)
• Traveller (Anoushka Shankar album)
• Traveller (Chris Stapleton album)
• The Traveler (Kenny Barron album)
• The Traveler, an album by Billy Cobham
• The Traveller, an album by Shed
• The Traveller, an album by Tineke Postma
• Travellers, an album by Nucleus Torn

Songs

• "Traveller" (Chris Stapleton song), a 2015 song by Chris Stapleton
• "Traveller", a song by Aiko Kayō
• "Traveller", title track of Traveller (Anoushka Shankar album)
• "Traveller", title track of Traveller (Jorn album)
• "The Traveller", a song by Joe Satriani from the album Strange Beautiful Music
• "The Traveller", a song by A Flock of Seagulls from the album Listen
• "The Traveller", a song by Chris de Burgh from the album Eastern Wind
• "The Traveller", a song by Beach House from the album Thank Your Lucky Stars
• "The Traveler", a song by Scale the Summit from the album The Migration

Theatre

• Traveler curtain, a curtain that opens and closes horizontally using a series of pulleys

Businesses and organizations

For sports teams, see § Sport.

• The Travelers Companies, an American insurance company
• Traveller's Inn, a Canadian hotel chain
• Travelers Aid International, provides assistance to travelers
• Travellers Club, "the quintessential English gentleman's club"

Science and technology

For vehicles, see § Vehicles.

• Costaconvexa centrostrigaria or Traveller, a moth
• Mechanical traveller, a part of a ship or machine
• Traveler, part of a ring spinning machine for the manufacture of textile yarn

Vehicles

Ships

• HMS Traveller, a British Royal Navy shipname
  • 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 Travel(l)er, a U.S. Navy shipname
  • 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

Other vehicles

• Beechcraft Model 17 Staggerwing, an aircraft used during World War II
• International Harvester Scout Traveller, a variant of the International Scout, one of the first production American sport utility vehicles
• Force Traveller, a minibus/cargo van

Sport

• Delhi Travellers, a junior ice hockey team in Canada
• Little Rock Travelers, a defunct American minor league baseball team (see also Arkansas Travelers)

Other uses

• Traveler (mascot), official mascot of University of Southern California
• Fellow traveller, a socio-political term
• Traveler Mountain, a mountain in Maine; the highest peak is called "The Traveler"

See also

• Travel (disambiguation)
• Travelers Rest (disambiguation)
• Backpacking (travel), 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
• Time traveler (disambiguation), in science fiction
• All pages with titles containing Traveler
• All pages with titles beginning with Traveler