Course
Course verb - To make one's way through, across, or over.
Usage example: once the threat of terrorism became apparent, fighter jets began coursing that corridor on a daily basis
Traverse and course are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Traverse" instead the word "Course" as a verb or a noun.
Both words in one sentence
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The first Green Plant course in F-Zero GX is shaped like a Mobius strip, meaning you traverse each section both rightside-up and upside-down.
Source: Level in Reverse -
Of course, there needs must be named the "protagonist" of Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day, the dynamite-happy anarchist Webb Traverse, and his nitroglycerin liturgy against the railroads.
Source: Bomb-Throwing Anarchists - The BBC's Daylight Robbery documentary of the late 80s featured as its centerpiece a (wild) squirrel working out how to traverse a fairly fiddly obstacle course in order to obtain the nutty goodness at the other end.
Source: Stock Animal Diet
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Traverse and Course. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 15, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/course/traverse
Course & Traverse. N.p., 2016. Web. 15 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/course/traverse>.
Traverse or Course. 2016. Accessed August 15, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/course/traverse.
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