How to say "traveling" in Japanese

• 走行そうこうJLPT N1approx.Common
  noun, suru verb, intransitive verbCovers 'traveling' in the sense of a vehicle running: a car, bus, or the like in motion. It concerns the vehicle's movement, not a person's trip, so it is seldom the word for a journey.
  走行中そうこうちゅうの箱ばこ乗のりはご遠慮えんりょ下ください！↗

  Please don't lean out of the window when we're moving.
• 移動いどうJLPT N3approx.Common
  prenominal modifierCovers 'traveling' in the broad sense of moving from one place to another, and applies to people and things alike. For saying you are traveling between places, this is the word you want.

Use 走行 when 'traveling' means a vehicle such as a car or bus running along; use 移動 for traveling in the general sense of moving from one place to another, by person or thing.

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• 走行そうこうrunning (of a car, bus, etc.)
• 行こうgoing
• トラベリングtraveling (in basketball)
• 行旅こうりょtraveling
• 道行きみちゆきgoing down the road
• 移動いどうmobile