travel by

1. 1.

   move past

   “A black limousine passed by when she looked out the window”

   “He passed his professor in the hall”

   “One line of soldiers surpassed the other”

   Synonymspass bysurpassgo pastgo bypass

   Broadertravel

   Narrowerskirtrun byfly byzip by

Questions about travel by

What does travel by mean?

travel by means "move past".

What is another word for travel by?

Close synonyms include pass by, surpass, go past, go by, pass. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is travel by a common word?

travel by is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.