adventuring

1. 1
   verbarchaic

   Present participle and gerund of adventure.

   The explorers were adventuring deep into the rainforest when the storm hit.

   Adventuring across unfamiliar terrain taught her to read a map quickly.

   Note

   One -ing form does two jobs here. After a form of be it is the progressive verb (they were adventuring into the rainforest). At the head of a phrase it is a gerund (adventuring across unfamiliar terrain taught her). The verb's older transitive uses, adventuring something in the sense of risking, hazarding or daring it, are archaic. Once it can be counted and pluralized, it has become the noun for exploits.

2. 2
   noununcountable

   An exciting or unusual undertaking, often involving risk or the thrill of the unknown.

   Their cross-country adventuring filled an entire photo album by September.

   She craved the kind of adventuring that took her far from familiar streets.

   Similarexploration, traveling

   Note

   The plural shows this is a noun in its own right. David Leavitt, writing in the New York Times in 2007, describes a character whose adventurings are recounted on a widely read blog. Adventures counts separate episodes. Adventurings keeps the -ing's sense of activity in progress, so it names a running series of exploits rather than a tidy list of them.

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