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high adventure en · NOUN
Meanings
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(uncountable) Exciting 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:
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(uncountable) A style of literature involving danger and excitement in remote or lawless places.