Traverse may refer to:

• Traverse (climbing), skiing, and in the engineering of roads into slopes
• Traverse (surveying), a method of establishing basic points in the field
• Movement of a machine slide on a machine tool
• Traverse stage, a style of theatre seating or performance

Other meanings:

• TRAVERSE (software), accounting and business software
• Traverse (gunnery), the horizontal field of fire of an artillery piece
• Traverse (trench warfare), a development in trench design
• Traverse (fortification), a mass of earth behind a military parapet
• Traverse (magazine), a Northern Michigan regional monthly
• Chevrolet Traverse, a 2009 sport-utility vehicle
• Traverse County, Minnesota, a county in Minnesota
• Traverse City, Michigan
• Traverse, Michigan, an unincorporated community
• Traverse Theatre, writing theatre in Scotland
• Traverse Town, a fictional city in some Kingdom Hearts series video games
• Traverse (common law), a pleading which alleges that a fact previously alleged by an adversary is untrue or is made without adequate knowledge