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Noun

1. 1
   The act or practice of traveling into the future or past.
2. 2
   The act of modifying the internal clock of a video game or the platform running said video game, usually in order to trigger time-based events earlier than they're meant to.

   "I often time-travel in Animal Crossing so that I don't have to wait for my trees to grow."

Example

More examples

"Time-traveling can mess your body up pretty bad."

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