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# adventure

«adventure» in Mova's school dictionary: **an exciting, unusual and sometimes risky experience or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (an adventure, adventures; adventure as uncountable — a love of adventure); adjective adventurous

### meaning for a pupil

1) An adventure is an exciting, unusual and sometimes risky experience or journey. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adventure/#m1)

2) Adventure is the excitement of doing new and daring things. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adventure/#m2)

3) An adventure story is a story full of exciting events. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adventure/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In literacy, adventure stories are a genre with a hero, a journey, danger and a happy ending. In everyday life a trip, camping, or exploring a new place can be an adventure. In safety lessons: adventures should be planned with adults, and dangerous dares are not adventures. Phrases: «go on an adventure», «adventure playground», «sense of adventure».

### examples

- We went on an adventure in the woods behind the house. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adventure/#x1)
- Treasure Island is a famous adventure story. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adventure/#x2)
- The new adventure playground has a zip line. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adventure/#x3)
- Grandma loves adventure and travels all over the world. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adventure/#x4)
- Write an adventure story about a lost map. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adventure/#x5)
- Camping in the rain was quite an adventure! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adventure/#x6)
- The explorers had many adventures at sea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adventure/#x7)

### note

Countable (an adventure) and uncountable (a love of adventure). Adjective: adventurous; a person: adventurer. Spelled with «-ture». «It was an adventure» can also be a joking way to say something went wrong but was fun.

### In the corpora

- [People joke that a goldfish forgets everything after three seconds, so swimming round a bowl is always a new adventure.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/204-goldfish-and-pond-fish-the-three-second-memory-myth/0/)
- [Now the creatures want Alice's adventures.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/20-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-2/0/)
- [The adventures first: explanations take such a dreadful time.»](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/20-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-2/14/)
- [Alice tells her sister all her adventures, then runs in to tea.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/24-alice-alices-evidence-2/13/)
- [He listens to their whole adventure and never once says «I told you so».](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/37-willows-ch4-part1-mr-badger/7/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «adventure» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adventure/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.