nomad
The dogs were used by the nomadic tribe to pull sleds and herd reindeer.
The work can be exhausting and demands a nomadic existence in hotels and airports.
Dating is an obvious problem with this nomadic lifestyle.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Nomadic & alternative lifestyles
a rolling stone (gathers no moss)idiom
beatnik
bohemian
boho
communal
demi-monde
flower child
go/get back to natureidiom
greaser
hermit
nature
New Age
New Age traveller
New Ager
nomad
rolling
subcultural
the Beat Generation
traveller
underground

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nomadic
Later they absorbed the surviving nomadic descendants of the authentic autochtons.
Unlike urban formations before the eighteenth century, these new towns absorbed nomadic and religious elements into their residential and secular spaces.
A rather remarkable deficiency of the new land legislation is the total neglect of pastoral and nomadic rights.
However, the nomadic pastoral zones and their people could never be completely 'tamed' or made gentlemen soldiers until the 1850s.
Wandering in a faux pastoral, the nomadic dervish has no town, no ethnicity, and no specific territory.
This is surprising since these dry lands were of the utmost importance for nomadic livestock keeping, and therefore formed an important economic resource.
His experiences in guiding the first geologists around his desert domain gave him a thorough knowledge of the nomadic people he ruled.
Only three decades earlier, the lives of the indigenous people (primarily nomadic tribes and pearl divers) changed dramatically.
Vascular species were recorded over the whole site and totalled 120 epiphytes, 21 climbers, 3 hemiepiphytes, 5 nomadic vines and 6 mistletoes.
They are a somewhat nomadic tribe and are found all over the colony, but mostly in the upper reaches of the river.
The diversity is staggering: types of vegetation and associated management practices which range from commercial ranches to traditional transhumance and nomadic systems.
The hall was covered with a pyramidal roof resembling a tent + an appropriate architecture for a nomadic-warrior culture.
The transition from vulgar nomadic music to respectable folkloric music is filtered through the validating screens of the lettered city.
Home to a nomadic hippy, it was encrusted with a bristling baroque fantasy of plastic toys, plastic landscapes, silly scenes and shrines.
Most dramatic was the effect on nomadic tribes hitherto subjected to only the loosest control by the central authorities.
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