adventurer

1. A person who enjoys taking risks (synset 109629201)
   is a type of: individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul - a human being
   subtypes:

   • argonaut - someone engaged in a dangerous but potentially rewarding adventure
   • adventuress - a woman adventurer
   • cowboy - someone who is reckless or irresponsible (especially in driving vehicles)
   • daredevil, harum-scarum, hothead, lunatic, madcap, swashbuckler - a reckless impetuous irresponsible person
   • gambler, risk taker - someone who risks loss or injury in the hope of gain or excitement
   • hotspur - a rash or impetuous person
   • mercenary, soldier of fortune - a person hired to fight for another country than their own
   • mountain climber, mountaineer - someone who climbs mountains
   • plunger, speculator - someone who risks losses for the possibility of considerable gains
   specific instances: casanova, casanova de seingalt, giovanni jacopo casanova, giovanni jacopo casanova de seingalt - an Italian adventurer who wrote vivid accounts of his sexual encounters (1725-1798)
   same as: venturer
2. Someone who travels into little known regions (especially for some scientific purpose) (synset 110092496)
   is a type of: individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul - a human being
   subtypes:

   • conquistador - an adventurer (especially one who led the Spanish conquest of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century)
   • diver, frogman, underwater diver - someone who works underwater
   • navigator - in earlier times, a person who explored by ship
   • potholer, spelaeologist, speleologist, spelunker - a person who explores caves
   specific instances:

   • amundsen, roald amundsen - Norwegian explorer who was the first to traverse the Northwest Passage and in 1911 the first to reach the South Pole (1872-1928)
   • bartlett, captain bob, robert abram bartlett, robert bartlett - United States explorer who accompanied Peary's expedition to the North Pole and who led many other Arctic trips (1875-1946)
   • bougainville, louis antoine de bougainville - French explorer who circumnavigated the globe accompanied by scientists (1729-1811)
   • burton, richard burton, sir richard burton, sir richard francis burton - English explorer who with John Speke was the first European to explore Lake Tanganyika (1821-1890)
   • admiral byrd, byrd, richard e. byrd, richard evelyn byrd - explorer and United States naval officer; led expeditions to explore Antarctica (1888-1957)
   • cabot, sebastian cabot - son of John Cabot who was born in Italy and who led an English expedition in search of the Northwest Passage and a Spanish expedition that explored the La Plata region of Brazil; in 1544 he published a map of the world (1476-1557)
   • champlain, samuel de champlain - French explorer in Nova Scotia who established a settlement on the site of modern Quebec (1567-1635)
   • clark, william clark - United States explorer who (with Meriwether Lewis) led an expedition from St. Louis to the mouth of the Columbia River; Clark was responsible for making maps of the area (1770-1838)
   • cordoba, cordova, francisco fernandez cordoba, francisco fernandez de cordova - Spanish explorer who discovered Yucatan (1475-1526)
   • cousteau, jacques costeau, jacques yves costeau - French underwater explorer (born in 1910)
   • flinders, matthew flinders, sir matthew flinders - British explorer who mapped the Australian coast (1774-1814)
   • fremont, john c. fremont, john charles fremont - United States explorer who mapped much of the American west and Northwest (1813-1890)
   • frobisher, sir martin frobisher - English explorer who led an expedition in search of the Northwest Passage to the orient; served under Drake and helped defeat the Spanish Armada (1535-1594)
   • charles francis hall, hall - United States explorer who led three expeditions to the Arctic (1821-1871)
   • joliet, jolliet, louis joliet, louis jolliet - French explorer (with Jacques Marquette) of the upper Mississippi River valley (1645-1700)
   • lasalle, rene-robert cavelier, sieur de lasalle - French explorer who claimed Louisiana for France (1643-1687)
   • lewis, meriwether lewis - United States explorer and soldier who lead led an expedition from St. Louis to the mouth of the Columbia River (1774-1809)
   • david livingstone, livingstone - Scottish missionary and explorer who discovered the Zambezi River and Victoria Falls (1813-1873)
   • mackenzie, sir alexander mackenzie - Canadian explorer (born in England) who explored the Mackenzie River and who was first to cross North America by land north of Mexico (1764-1820)
   • fridtjof nansen, nansen - Norwegian explorer of the Arctic and director of the League of Nations relief program for refugees of World War I (1861-1930)
   • mungo park, park - Scottish explorer in Africa (1771-1806)
   • peary, robert e. peary, robert edwin peary, robert peary - United States Arctic explorer and United States naval officer who has been regarded as the first man to reach the North Pole (1856-1920)
   • kund johan victor rasmussen, rasmussen - Danish ethnologist and Arctic explorer; led expeditions into the Arctic to find support for his theory that Eskimos and North American Indians originally migrated from Asia (1879-1933)
   • james clark ross, ross, sir james clark ross - British explorer of the Arctic and Antarctic; located the north magnetic pole in 1831; discovered the Ross Sea in Antarctica; nephew of Sir John Ross (1800-1862)
   • john ross, ross, sir john ross - Scottish explorer who led Arctic expeditions that yielded geographic discoveries while searching for the Northwest Passage (1777-1856)
   • henry rowe schoolcraft, schoolcraft - United States geologist and ethnologist and explorer who discovered the source of the Mississippi River (1793-1864)
   • robert falcon scott, robert scott, scott - English explorer who reached the South Pole just a month after Amundsen; he and his party died on the return journey (1868-1912)
   • captain john smith, john smith, smith - English explorer who helped found the colony at Jamestown, Virginia; was said to have been saved by Pocahontas (1580-1631)
   • john hanning speke, john speke, speke - English explorer who with Sir Richard Burton was the first European to explore Lake Tanganyika; he also discovered Lake Victoria and named it (1827-1864)
   • henry m. stanley, john rowlands, sir henry morton stanley, stanley - Welsh journalist and explorer who led an expedition to Africa in search of David Livingstone and found him in Tanzania in 1871; he and Livingstone together tried to find the source of the Nile River (1841-1904)
   • otto neumann sverdrup, sverdrup - Norwegian explorer who led expeditions into the Arctic (1855-1930)
   • sebastian vizcaino, vizcaino - Spanish explorer who was the first European to explore the California coast (1550-1615)
   • charles wilkes, wilkes - United States explorer of Antarctica (1798-1877)
   • george hubert wilkins, wilkins - Australian who was the first to explore the Arctic by airplane (1888-1958)
   same as: explorer

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