Quest vs. Adventure — What's the Difference?

A quest is a journey toward a specific mission or a goal. The word serves as a plot device in mythology and fiction: a difficult journey towards a goal, often symbolic or allegorical.

An adventure is an exciting experience that is typically bold, sometimes risky or undertaking. Adventures may be activities with some potential for physical danger such as traveling, exploring, skydiving, mountain climbing, scuba diving, river rafting or participating in extreme sports.

The act or an instance of seeking or pursuing something; a search.

An unusual and exciting or daring experience

An expedition undertaken in medieval romance by a knight in order to perform a prescribed feat

Engage in daring or risky activity

An inquest.

An undertaking or enterprise of a hazardous nature.

A jury appointed to take part in an inquest.

An undertaking of a questionable nature, especially one involving intervention in another state's affairs.

To search for something

An unusual or exciting experience

To go on a quest.

Participation in hazardous or exciting experiences

To search for game or bay when sighting game, as a hound.

A financial speculation or business venture.

A journey or effort in pursuit of a goal (often lengthy, ambitious, or fervent); a mission.

To venture upon; undertake or try

The act of seeking, or looking after anything; attempt to find or obtain; search; pursuit.

To expose to danger or risk

(obsolete) Request; desire; solicitation.

To proceed despite risks

(obsolete) A group of people making search or inquiry.

To take a risk; dare

(obsolete) Inquest; jury of inquest.

The encountering of risks; a bold undertaking, in which dangers are likely to be encountered, and the issue is staked upon unforeseen events; a daring feat.

(education) A short test.

A remarkable occurrence; a striking event.

(intransitive) To seek or pursue a goal; to undertake a mission or job.

A mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard; a venture; a shipment by a merchant on his own account.

(transitive) To search for something; to seek.

(uncountable) A feeling of desire for new and exciting things.

To locate and attach to a host animal.

(video games) A text adventure or an adventure game.

The act of seeking, or looking after anything; attempt to find or obtain; search; pursuit; as, to rove in quest of game, of a lost child, of property, etc.

(obsolete) That which happens by chance; hazard; hap.

Request; desire; solicitation.

(obsolete) Chance of danger or loss.

Those who make search or inquiry, taken collectively.

(obsolete) Risk; danger; peril.

Inquest; jury of inquest.

To risk or hazard; jeopard; venture.

To search for; to examine.

To venture upon; to run the risk of; to dare.

To go on a quest; to make a search; to go in pursuit; to beg.

To try the chance; to take the risk.

A search for an alternative that meets cognitive criteria;

That which happens without design; chance; hazard; hap; hence, chance of danger or loss.

The act of searching for something;

Risk; danger; peril.

Make a search (for);

The encountering of risks; hazardous and striking enterprise; a bold undertaking, in which hazards are to be encountered, and the issue is staked upon unforeseen events; a daring feat.

Search the trail of (game);

A remarkable occurrence; a striking event; a stirring incident; as, the adventures of one's life.

Bark with prolonged noises, of dogs

A mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard; a venture; a shipment by a merchant on his own account.

Seek alms, as for religious purposes

To risk, or hazard; jeopard; to venture.

Express the need or desire for; ask for;

To venture upon; to run the risk of; to dare.

To try the chance; to take the risk.

A wild and exciting undertaking (not necessarily lawful)

Take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome;

Put at risk;