navigate
verb
[ ˈnavɪɡeɪt ]
• plan and direct the course of a ship, aircraft, or other form of transport, especially by using instruments or maps.
• "they navigated by the stars"
• sail or travel over (a stretch of water or terrain), especially carefully or with difficulty.
• "ships had been lost while navigating the narrows"
Origin:
late 16th century (in the sense ‘travel in a ship’): from Latin navigat- ‘sailed’, from the verb navigare, from navis ‘ship’ + agere ‘drive’.
