high adventure

noun

Exciting or strenuous outdoor recreational activities such as backpacking, rock climbing, mountaineering, and whitewater kayaking.

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Meanings

nounhigh adventure (uncountable)
  1. uncountableExciting or strenuous outdoor recreational activities such as backpacking, rock climbing, mountaineering, and whitewater kayaking.

    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.

    1914, Jack London, The Mutiny of the Elsinore, Chapter XLVI
  2. uncountableA style of literature involving danger and excitement in remote or lawless places.
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APA

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“high adventure.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/high%20adventure. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “high adventure,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/high%20adventure.

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