Meaning of high adventure | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Exciting or strenuous outdoor recreational activities such as backpacking, rock climbing, mountaineering, and whitewater kayaking.
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2. A style of literature involving danger and excitement in remote or lawless places.
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Examples

“Culture has not emasculated me. I am quite unaffected. It was in the day's work, and my kind have always been day-workers, doing the day's work, whatever it might be, in high adventure or dull ploddingness, and always doing it.”

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