overlanding

English

Verb

overlanding

1. present participle and gerund of overland

Noun

overlanding (uncountable)

1. The practice of travelling overland, or moving stock overland.
   • 2006 March 11, Mark Eveleigh, “Africa made easy”, in The Guardian‎^[1], →ISSN:

     Is an overlanding trip trucking hell, or a good way to reach the parts that local buses don't get to?

2. Having not taken air or water craft for any significant portion of the distance travelled.
   • 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 219:

     "Overlanding," however, was a feat that was not to be accomplished without danger and, in some cases, loss of life. Some of the drovers on their way to Port Darwin found the body of a poor fellow near the Roper River.