Strolling
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
[1913 Webster]
These mothers stroll to beg sustenance for their
helpless infants. --Swift.
[1913 Webster]
Syn: To rove; roam; range; stray.
[1913 Webster]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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
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