urban exploration
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.06 in modern English
27
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
5
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The exploration of man-made, particularly urban, environments; such exploration in places which are not normally accessible due to prohibited access or abandonment.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "While there are people living beneath Manhattan — most of them addicts or mentally ill — many of Toth's claims of thousands of people living in quasi-tribes have been cast into doubt by the urban exploration community."
- "Urban exploration verges toward transgression without ever shattering it. Yet while urban exploration retains a purely inquisitive outlook, whereby exploration is conceived of in moralistic terms, its gradual reliance on a transgressive outlook is inevitable."
- "These counterpoints can't really be forced in an urban exploration setting, but keep your eye out for locations that offer them."