Meaning of travel bug | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A tag stamped with a number, placed in a geocache (often attached to another item, called a hitchhiker) so that subsequent finders can take it to other caches and track its movement around the world.
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see travel, bug.

Examples

“The teams placed their travel⟳ bugs in a geocache and listed the bugs on the geocaching.com Web site […]”

“Because moving travel⟳ bugs is a practice that is only physical in nature—you find⟳ the travel⟳ bug and then you move⟳ it to another geocache—the game's design⟳ did not require⟳ players to take⟳ part in as much conversation as I had hoped.”

“After my trip⟳ to New Zealand, I caught the travel⟳ bug: now I go abroad several times a year.”

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