adventurer, venturer

a person who enjoys taking risks

• argonaut — someone engaged in a dangerous but potentially rewarding adventure
• adventuress — a woman adventurer
• cowboy — someone who is reckless or irresponsible (especially in driving vehicles)
• daredevil, madcap, hothead, swashbuckler, lunatic, harum-scarum — a reckless impetuous irresponsible person
• gambler, risk taker — someone who risks loss or injury in the hope of gain or excitement
• hotspur — a rash or impetuous person
• mercenary, soldier of fortune — a person hired to fight for another country than their own
• mountaineer, mountain climber — someone who climbs mountains
• parachutist, parachuter — a person who jumps from aircraft using a parachute
• speculator, plunger — someone who risks losses for the possibility of considerable gains
• Casanova, Giovanni Jacopo Casanova, Casanova de Seingalt, Giovanni Jacopo Casanova de Seingalt — an Italian adventurer who wrote vivid accounts of his sexual encounters (1725-1798)

• person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, human, soul — a human being