commuting
commuting — noun
1. the everyday journey between your home and your workplace or school, usually by
the everyday journey between your home and your workplace or school, usually by train, bus, car, or bike, and usually back again the same day.
Daily commuting between Brighton and London left Owen exhausted by Friday evening.
daily/weekly + commuting (frequency adjective)
Linh saved nearly two hours a day by giving up driving and commuting by train instead.
commuting + by + transport mode
The rain made commuting on her bicycle miserable for Nia all of last week.
After the company moved to the suburbs, commuting became a real headache for the whole team.
Hamza spent his commuting time listening to language podcasts on the bus.
- commute
countable noun; refers to one journey or the regular journey itself
- travelling to work
everyday phrasing; less compact than 'commuting'
- working from home
the alternative pattern that removes the daily journey
- telecommuting
working remotely using digital tools instead of physically travelling
用法筆記
Uncountable: 'a commuting' is wrong; say 'commuting' or 'the daily commute' (the noun 'commute' is the countable form). Often used with 'by' + transport mode and adverbs of frequency such as 'daily' or 'long-distance'.