navigate in WordNet English dictionary

1. act as the navigator in a car, plane, or vessel and plan, direct, plot the path and position of the conveyance
   "Is anyone volunteering to navigate during the trip?"; "Who was navigating the ship during the accident?"
   navigate  pilot 
   
2. travel on water propelled by wind or by other means
   "The QE2 will sail to Southampton tomorrow"
   voyage  sail  navigate 
   
3. direct carefully and safely
   "He navigated his way to the altar"
   navigate