Roget's Thesaurus: Entry 268 (Traveler)

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#268. Traveler. -- N. traveler, wayfarer, voyager, itinerant, passenger, commuter.

tourist, excursionist, explorer, adventurer, mountaineer, hiker, backpacker, Alpine Club; peregrinator[obs], wanderer, rover, straggler, rambler; bird of passage; gadabout, gadling[obs]; vagrant, scatterling[obs], landloper[obs], waifs and estrays[obs], wastrel, foundling; loafer; tramp, tramper; vagabond, nomad, Bohemian, gypsy, Arab[obs], Wandering Jew, Hadji, pilgrim, palmer; peripatetic; somnambulist, emigrant, fugitive, refugee; beach comber, booly[obs]; globegirdler[obs], globetrotter; vagrant, hobo [U.S.], night walker, sleep walker; noctambulist, runabout, straphanger, swagman, swagsman [obs][Aust.]; trecker[obs], trekker, zingano[obs], zingaro[obs].

runner, courier; Mercury, Iris, Ariel[obs], comet.

pedestrian, walker, foot passenger; cyclist; wheelman.

rider,horseman, equestrian, cavalier, jockey, roughrider, trainer, breaker.

driver, coachman, whip, Jehu, charioteer, postilion, postboy[obs], carter, wagoner, drayman[obs]; cabman, cabdriver; voiturier[obs], vetturino[obs], condottiere[obs]; engine driver; stoker, fireman, guard; chauffeur, conductor, engineer, gharry-wallah[obs], gari-wala[obs], hackman, syce[obs], truckman[obs].

Phr. on the road