circumnavigation
/səːkəmnavɪˈɡeɪʃ(ə)n
/noun
1The action or process of sailing or otherwise travelling all the way around something, especially the world: he completed the fastest solo circumnavigation in a small vessel the first circumnavigation of the globe in a helicopter...
- He's led more than 30 expeditions, including the first polar circumnavigation of the earth.
- In the Egyptian scheme of things, a boat carrying the sun made a daily circumnavigation.
- This is the latest leg in his third circumnavigation of the globe in 14 years.
1.1The action of going around or avoiding an obstacle: our leisurely circumnavigation of the rocks...
- The game design is such that there are no open spaces that allow for effortless circumnavigation of foes.
- The streets are spared from heavy through traffic by the squares, which provide monuments on axis that require slow-speed circumnavigation.
- Another version of the physical challenge is chair circumnavigation, which is even more painful.
1.2The action of avoiding something difficult or unpleasant: a circumnavigation of the simple facts...
- How implicated is the traditional doctrine of inspiration with the circumnavigation of authority?
- Against this circumnavigation of every thought by other, rugged little thoughts, is set the grim forward march of Ahab's will.
- One has the distinct sense of their returning to the home port after a long and uncomfortable circumnavigation of the idea of being "human."