traveling vs traverse

traveling and traverse both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
traveling	Yes	No	No	No
traverse	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, traverse is a hyponym of traveling; that is, traverse is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than traveling:

traveling (noun)	traverse (noun)
the act of going from one place to another	taking a zigzag path on skis
	travel across
	a horizontal crosspiece across a window or separating a door from a window over it
	a horizontal beam that extends across something

traveling (verb)	traverse (verb)
	deny formally (an allegation of fact by the opposing party) in a legal suit
	travel across or pass over
	to cover or extend over an area or time period