circumnavigate
to travel around
Roots
- circum: around
- nav / navig: ship, sail, or steer a route
Other words with the nav / navig root
- naval: relating to ships or a navy
- navigate: to find or steer a route
- navigation: the act or skill of finding a route
- navy: a nation's sea force
Circum gives around; nav / navig gives route-finding. Circumnavigate means navigate around a place.
The crew tried to circumnavigate the island before the storm arrived.