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Tomas Idle and Francis Goodchild, derived from William Hogarth’s (1697-1764) painting Industry and Idleness, emblematise the famous writers Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins. The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices (1890), based on their travel to the north of England in 1857, cannot be classified under a single genre. It consists of two contrasting people’s travel records, starting with an essay but ambiguously turning to fiction. It is not an accurate and realistic travel story or travelogue, but an ambiguous text that contains a fantasy or horror story written within a frame structure. Moreover, the motivation for the trip, to lose contact with literature, reminds us of life as an adventure, an encounter with the unknown, and a return from travel. In the text, travel, adventure, and life share complementary properties and interact in many ways. If so, why should this text be discussed in terms of mobility? Starting from geography and physical movement, mobility has become a contemporary paradigm in explorations in the social sciences of the movement of people, ideas, and things as well as the broader social implications of those movements. Mobility is the right to move, viewed in the social sciences as a universal right of anyone, but it can be reduced to a means of politically controlling individuals, making them move according to another’s will, and as such it functions as an ideology. In addition, mobility can be a method of interacting with and analysing the world. In mobility research, essential narratives include not only novels but many other writings, adding a possible literary imagination to mobility. After positing that the theoretical field of understanding society centres on a dynamic operating through a paradigm or mobility shift as the basis of the theory of mobility research, some aspects of mobility will be examined in the Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices. The study of mobility, starting from physical movement and proceeding to the prism of thoughts, and its application in this text will allow us to examine the reflections on human beings of two male writers in the 19th century. Thanks to the ambiguity of genre, the detailed description, and the interweaving together of travel and life, this text begins with their escape from the bustling city and their master, as the wife, that is, literature makes us explore some of the effects of mobility beyond travel itself introduced by Mimi Sheller, John Urry, and other mobility theorists.