roam(v = verb.motion) cast, drift, ramble, range, roll, rove, stray, swan, tramp, vagabond, wander - move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment; "The gypsies roamed the woods"; "roving vagabonds"; "the wandering Jew"; "The cattle roam across the prairie"; "the laborers drift from one town to the next"; "They rolled from town to town"
is one way to go, locomote, move, travel
Derived form noun roamer1
Sample sentences:
They roam the countryside; They roam in the countryside
To go from place to place without any certain purpose or direction; to rove; to wander. [1913 Webster]
"He roameth to the carpenter's house." [1913 Webster]
"Daphne roaming through a thorny wood." [1913 Webster]
To range or wander over. [1913 Webster]
"And now wild beasts came forth the woods to roam." [1913 Webster]
The act of roaming; a wandering; a ramble; as, he began his roam o'er hill and dale. Milton. [1913 Webster]
roam, v. & n.
--v.
1 intr. ramble, wander.
2 tr. travel unsystematically over, through, or about.
--n. an act of roaming; a ramble.
Derivative:
roamer n.
Etymology:
ME: orig. unkn.
VB travel, journey, course, take a journey, go a journey, take a walk, go out for walk, have a run, take the air, flit, take wing, migrate, emigrate, trek, rove, prowl, roam, range, patrol, pace up and down, traverse, scour the country, traverse the country, peragrate, circumambulate, perambulate, nomadize, wander, ramble, stroll, saunter, hover, go one's rounds, straggle, gad, gad about, expatiate, walk, march, step, tread, pace, plod, wend, go by shank's mare, promenade, trudge, tramp, stalk, stride, straddle, strut, foot it, hoof it, stump, bundle, bowl along, toddle, paddle, tread a path, take horse, ride, drive, trot, amble, canter, prance, fisk, frisk, caracoler, caracole, gallop, embark, board, set out, hit the road, get going, get underway, peg on, jog on, wag on, shuffle on, stir one's stumps, bend one's steps, bend one's course, make one's way, find one's way, wend one's way, pick one's way, pick one's way, thread one's way, plow one's way, slide, glide, coast, skim, skate, march in procession, file on, defile, go to, repair to, resort to, hie to, betake oneself to.