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• n  a person who enjoys taking risks
• n  someone who travels into little known regions (especially for some scientific purpose)

• Sir Edmund Hillary: A visit with the world's greatest living adventurer.
• In 2000 adventurer Doug Stoup became the first American to ski from the Antarctic coast to the South Pole.
• Richard Branson pays tribute to a lost adventurer, who soared to new heights and took us along for the ride.

• venturer
• explorer

News & Articles

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• Review: Evoland compresses three decades of video game history into one game
  In Evoland, you play a nameless (until you eventually unlock the ability to name yourself) adventurer, who wanders a rapidly changing world, stabbing monsters and looking for chests, without purpose (until you unlock the "Storyline" feature). Evoland began as a contest entry for 24-hour videogame design, and was sufficiently well received that Shiro Games expanded it into a full commercial ...
  June 14, 2013 - PC World
• By persevering, our daddy-longlegs succeeds
  As a little girl I dreamed of becoming an adventurer like the people I saw in the movies. They usually wore khaki-colored clothes. Their vests and shirts had lots of pockets. They needed somewhere to put all their found treasures. I had my own adventures in the alley that ran past our house. I found many treasures there. Treasures that only had value to me. And yet, they always told a story ...
  June 14, 2013 - Sioux City Journal
• Briefs: Artist’s reception Friday for self-taught photographer
  The Colusa County Arts Council will host a reception for the late John S. Ames from 6-8 p.m. Friday, 430 Market St., Suite C, Colusa. John Ames was an adventurer, self-taught photographer, pilot and business owner who in 1969 took a job in Nicaragua,...
  June 12, 2013 - Colusa County Sun-Herald

Quotes

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• Helen Clark in BBC News
  The legendary mountaineer, adventurer, and philanthropist is the best-known New Zealander ever to have lived,Ms Clark said in a statement. "But most of all he was a quintessential Kiwi. He was ours - from his craggy appearance to laconic...
• Masi Oka in FOXNews
  He's wide-eyed. He's an adventurer,says Oka. "He's someone who was stuck in the monotony of being a cubicle office worker thinking there's got to be more to life, and he never gave up on that dream. I'm fortunate to live variously through...