English Vocabulary – Travel and Holidays

come back – to return to a place;

check in  /tʃek ɪn/ to show your ticket at an airport so that you can be told where you will be sitting and so that your bags can be put on the aircraft;

check out – to leave a hotel after paying and returning your room key;

chill out – to relax instead of worrying or feeling anxious;

drop someone/something off – to take someone or something to a particular place, usually by car, as you travel to a different place;

eat out – to eat in a restaurant;

get away – to go somewhere to have a holiday, often because you need to rest;

go back – to return;

look around (somewhere/something) – to visit a place and look at the things in it;

see someone off – to go to the place that someone is leaving from in order to say goodbye to them;

set something off – to cause an activity or event, often a series of events, to begin or happen;

stop over – to stay at a place for one night or a few nights on the way to somewhere else or before returning home

stop off somewhere – to visit or stay at a place for a short time when you are going somewhere else;

take something off – to remove something, especially clothes;

touch down – when an aircraft touches down, it lands;

take delight in something/doing something – to enjoy something very much, sometimes in a way that seems surprising or unkind;