The Collaborative International Dictionary
Jaunt \Jaunt\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Jaunted; p. pr. & vb. n. Jaunting.] [Cf. Scot. jaunder to ramble, jaunt to taunt, jeer, dial. Sw. ganta to play the buffoon, romp, jest; perh. akin to E. jump. Cf. Jaunce.]
To ramble here and there; to stroll; to make an excursion.
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To ride on a jaunting car.
Jaunting car, a kind of low-set open vehicle, used in Ireland, in which the passengers ride sidewise, sitting back to back. [Written also jaunty car.]
--Thackeray.
Wiktionary
n. The act of taking a jaunt. vb. (present participle of jaunt English)
Usage examples of "jaunting".
By the first decade of the twenty-fourth century the principles of jaunting were established and the first school was opened by Charles Fort Jaunte himself, then fifty-seven, immortalized, and ashamed to admit that he had never dared jaunte again.
In jaunting from New York to Chicago it is necessary for the person teleporting himself to know exactly where he is when he starts and where he’s going.
He could work his way in jaunting jumps over land and water from Nome to Mexico, but no jump could exceed a thousand miles.
On three planets and eight satellites, social, legal, and economic structures crashed while the new customs and laws demanded by universal jaunting mushroomed in their place.
There came a hideous return to the worst prudery of Victorianism as society fought the sexual and moral dangers of jaunting with protocol and taboo.
With self-contained heat and light plants, and jaunting to solve the transportation problem, single and multiple dwellings were built in desert, forest, and wilderness.
You’ve been jaunting all the while you’ve been pretending to learn in the primer class… taking big jumps around the country.
They’ll open up the top of your skull and burn out half your brain to stop you from ever jaunting again.
Of the three, the jaunting age considered concealment the most practical.
The entire building rocked from repeated explosions, and through the gaps in the walls uniformed men began jaunting in from the streets outside, like rooks swooping into the gut of a battlefield.
More than a century of jaunting had so mingled the many populations of the world that racial types were disappearing.
The crews of the Intelligence Tong were past masters of this OP-I maneuver, designed to outwit a jaunting world.
The problem of jaunting was not to get populations out of cities, but to force them to return and restore order.
So many of the rash and curious were jaunting into the smoking ruins that the police had set up a protective induction field to keep them out.
By the first decade of the twentyfourth century the principles of jaunting were established and the first school was opened by Charles Fort Jaunte himself, then fifty-seven, immortalized, and ashamed to admit that he had never dared jaunte again.