From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishcircumnavigatecir‧cum‧nav‧i‧gate /ˌsɜːkəmˈnævɪɡeɪt $ ˌsɜːr-/ verb [transitive] → See Verb table
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circumnavigate• Evans had taken Gwen's arm to help her circumnavigate a frozen puddle.• Ahead of me lay an historic mission: to circumnavigate London using hired transport, and return within 80 days.• Day 14 Regatta day circumnavigating Skorpios, finish line by Nidri quay.• We then circumnavigated the downtown Hoan Kiem lake.• Joshua Slocum, the first man to circumnavigate the globe alone, saw a phantom during his epic voyage.• Shortly after Columbus's epochal voyage, Magellan circumnavigated the globe.• Some 40,000 miles of seamounts circumnavigate the globe.• They are the charts of a new frontier, modern-day versions of the maps made before ships circumnavigated the globe.