What Does 'Travel Bug' Mean?

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FORCE: Degen EconomyUNIVERSE: Geocaching InternetCLUSTER: Geocaching

A specific brand of trackable item with a metal tag and unique code, dropped into caches and carried onward by other geocachers toward a goal set by its owner.

REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE

"Grabbed the travel bug and dropped it in a cache two states closer to its goal."

LORE & ORIGIN

Standard geocaching community term for this specific commercial trackable product, the original and most widely recognized trackable format in the hobby.

FIRST SEEN

2000

PEAK POPULARITY

2026 (Geocaching)

CURRENT STATUS

Mainstream Slang

Related To:Trackable

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EQUIVALENT CONCEPTS IN OTHER LANGUAGES

中文 zh-CN会被玩家带往不同藏宝点的追踪物 →日本語 ja-JPno fixed local term →한국어 ko-KRno fixed local term →Español es-ESno fixed local term →Português pt-BRno fixed local term →Français fr-FRno fixed local term →

AURA IMPACT ⓘ

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TREND STATUS

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CULTURE CATEGORY

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RELATED TERMS

Trackable

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