Strolling

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Stroll \Stroll\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Strolled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Strolling}.] [Cf. Dan. stryge to stroll, Sw. stryka to
     stroke, to ramble, dial. Sw. strykel one who strolls about,
     Icel. strj?ka to stroke, D. struikelen to stumble, G.
     straucheln. Cf. {Struggle}.]
     To wander on foot; to ramble idly or leisurely; to rove.


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           These mothers stroll to beg sustenance for their
           helpless infants.                        --Swift.
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     Syn: To rove; roam; range; stray.
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From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  142 Moby Thesaurus words for "strolling":
     ambling, ambulant, ambulation, ambulative, ambulatory, backpacking,
     cautious, circuit-riding, circumforaneous, circumspect, claudicant,
     crawling, creeping, creeping like snail, deliberate, discursive,
     divagatory, drifting, easy, errant, expeditionary, faltering,
     flagging, flitting, floating, foot-dragging, footing, footing it,
     footloose, footloose and fancy-free, footwork, fugitive, gadding,
     gentle, globe-girdling, globe-trotting, going, going on foot,
     gradual, gypsy-like, gypsyish, halting, hiking, hitchhiking,
     hitching, hobbled, hobbling, hoofing, idle, indolent, itinerant,
     itinerary, journeying, landloping, languid, languorous, lazy,
     legwork, leisurely, limping, locomotive, lumbering, marching,
     meandering, migrational, migratory, moderate, moving, mundivagant,
     nomad, nomadic, on tour, passing, pedestrian, pedestrianism,
     perambulating, perambulation, perambulatory, peregrinative,
     peregrine, peripatetic, pilgrimlike, poking, poky, progressing,
     rambling, ranging, relaxed, reluctant, roaming, roving, sauntering,
     shifting, shuffling, slack, slothful, slow, slow as death,
     slow as molasses, slow as slow, slow-crawling, slow-foot,
     slow-going, slow-legged, slow-moving, slow-paced, slow-poky,
     slow-running, slow-sailing, slow-stepped, sluggish, snail-paced,
     snaillike, staggering, straggling, straying, tentative, thumbing,
     thumbing a ride, toddling, tortoiselike, tottering, touring,
     touristic, touristy, traipsing, tramping, transient, transitory,
     transmigratory, traveling, treading, trekking, trudging,
     turtlelike, unhurried, vagabond, vagrant, waddling, walking,
     wandering, wayfaring