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(n)
A wandering on foot; an idle and leisurely walk; a ramble; a saunter.
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(v)
(intransitive) To stroll, or walk at a leisurely pace.
A rambling; an instance of someone talking at length without direction.
(rare) A survey, a tour; a walking around.
(chiefly US, dialectal, intransitive) To amble; to walk or proceed in a leisurely manner.
A walk taken for pleasure, display, or exercise; a stroll.
(archaic) An ambling nag (horse).
A casual stroll.
The taking of a stroll.
A carefree or aimless gait; a stroll.
(intransitive, colloquial) To walk about, especially when expending much effort, or unnecessary effort.
Obsolete form of stroll. [To wander on foot; to ramble idly or leisurely; to rove.]
Synonym of walk in the park.
A point in time during a stroll.
(British) To wander or ramble in a leisurely, indirect, or aimless manner, such as by walking or driving.
A walking trip.
A long meandering talk with no specific topic or direction.
A fall, trip or substantial misstep.
A trip made by walking.
A change of direction or orientation.
An ambling gait between a walk and a trot.
An instance or period of roaming.
A short excursion for pleasure or refreshment; a ramble; a short journey.
A series of one or more shelves, stacked one above the other.
A slow or labored walk or other motion or activity.
An advance or movement made from one foot to the other; a pace.
(countable) A long step in walking.
(intransitive) To move without purpose or specified destination; often in search of livelihood.
An instance of wallowing.
idling about, dawdling about, loafing about
An instance of running or skipping about playfully.
Alternative form of gambolling. [The act of one who gambols.]
A tramp, i.e. a long and tiring walk.
Laborious walking.
A furtive advance.
The act or result of rolling, or state of being rolled.
A rapid swimming stroke with alternate overarm strokes and a fluttering kick.
A gait of a person or animal faster than a walk but slower than a run.
The act of mixing cards or mah-jong tiles so as to randomize them.
A journey; an excursion or jaunt.
A ballroom dance in 3/4 time.
The act of taking a jaunt.
A prancing movement.
(sometimes derogatory) A homeless person; a vagabond.
A tortuous or winding journey.
Roaming about for pleasure.
(Scotland or obsolete) A prank or frolic.
A slow, regular, jolting gait.
A motion as of something moving upon little wheels or rollers; a rolling motion.
A soft toot sound.
The act or an instance of checking someone's clothes and body for weapons or contraband.
The act of one who gambols.
Confidence, pride.
(intransitive) To wander or travel freely and with no specific destination.
A popular dance of the 1940s.
Alternative form of traipsing. [Laborious walking.]
(philosophy) Ratiocination; step-by-step philosophical reasoning, as opposed to intuition.
(also figuratively) A step or walk done stiffly and with the head held high, often due to haughtiness or pride; affected dignity in walking.
Rapid circular motion.
The action of the verb loiter.
(usually in the plural) Either of a pair of protective leather gaiters on a saddle.
A quick, light run.
An unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing as if one were about to fall; a reeling motion.
A biological structure found in many animals that is used for locomotion and that is frequently a separate organ at the terminal part of the leg.
One who, or that which, snaps.
(marching) To march while playing an instrument by rolling the weight from back to front of the feet, done to stabilize the upper body.
An act of trouncing: a severe beating, a thrashing; a thorough defeat.
An unsteady movement or gait.
A step taken with the foot.
(intransitive, figuratively) To participate or have an interest in an activity in a casual or superficial way.
The act or motion of one who shuffles.
The act of one who potters.
(archaic) A wandering about, excursion, trip or a roving.
Alternative form of schlep. [A long or burdensome journey.]
An unsteady motion.
(rail transport) Synonym of local train.
(Scotland) An awkward or struggling movement; stumble.
The act, or an instance, of swinging.
(Australia, slang) The deliberately slow pace of work supposed to be typical of government workers.
An act of hitting; a blow, a hit.
(UK, Ireland, Nigeria) Deliberate slow working as a protest during an industrial dispute.
(Australia, New Zealand, uncountable) Walking in the countryside for pleasure or sport; hiking
A slow or difficult journey.
(uncountable, telecommunications) The ability to use a cell phone outside of its original registering zone.
(intransitive) To move hastily, to scurry.
A wobbling motion.
The act of frisking, of searching for something by feeling someone's body.
A road or path designed to take one past a pleasant view or nice scenery.
(music) A poem or song having a line or phrase repeated at regular intervals.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see elephant, walk.
A sudden or unsteady movement.
A quick, light running motion.
A leap that a horse makes with all fours, upwards only, without advancing, but with a kick or jerk of the hind legs when at the height of the leap.
The fastest gait of a horse, a two-beat stride during which all four legs are off the ground simultaneously.
A male given name from Hebrew, from the medieval vernacular form of Barnabas.
(transitive, figurative) To avoid or dodge.
A dance step, involving revolving without moving forward, sometimes used in a Viennese waltz