All wander synonyms

verb wander

• stroll — to walk leisurely as inclination directs; ramble; saunter; take a walk: to stroll along the beach.
• meander — to proceed by or take a winding or indirect course: The stream meandered through the valley.
• walk — to advance or travel on foot at a moderate speed or pace; proceed by steps; move by advancing the feet alternately so that there is always one foot on the ground in bipedal locomotion and two or more feet on the ground in quadrupedal locomotion.
• mosey — to wander or shuffle about leisurely; stroll; saunter (often followed by along, about, etc.).
• ramble — to wander around in a leisurely, aimless manner: They rambled through the shops until closing time.
• roam — to walk, go, or travel without a fixed purpose or direction; ramble; wander; rove: to roam about the world.
• amble — When you amble, you walk slowly and in a relaxed manner.
• mooch — to borrow (a small item or amount) without intending to return or repay it.
• cruise — A cruise is a holiday during which you travel on a ship or boat and visit a number of places.
• drift — a driving movement or force; impulse; impetus; pressure.
• float — to rest or remain on the surface of a liquid; be buoyant: The hollow ball floated.
• hike — to walk or march a great distance, especially through rural areas, for pleasure, exercise, military training, or the like.
• saunter — to walk with a leisurely gait; stroll: sauntering through the woods.
• straggle — to stray from the road, course, or line of march.
• stray — to deviate from the direct course, leave the proper place, or go beyond the proper limits, especially without a fixed course or purpose; ramble: to stray from the main road.
• traipse — to walk or go aimlessly or idly or without finding or reaching one's goal: We traipsed all over town looking for a copy of the book.
• trek — to travel or migrate, especially slowly or with difficulty.
• aberrate — to deviate from what is normal or correct
• circumambulate — to walk around (something)
• deviate — To deviate from something means to start doing something different or not planned, especially in a way that causes problems for others.
• divagate — to wander; stray.
• diverge — to move, lie, or extend in different directions from a common point; branch off.
• gad — to move restlessly or aimlessly from one place to another: to gad about.
• gallivant — to wander about, seeking pleasure or diversion; gad.
• jaunt — a short journey, especially one taken for pleasure.
• maunder — to talk in a rambling, foolish, or meaningless way.
• peregrinate — to travel or journey, especially to walk on foot.
• range — the extent to which or the limits between which variation is possible: the range of steel prices; a wide range of styles.
• roll — to move along a surface by revolving or turning over and over, as a ball or a wheel.
• rove — to wander about without definite destination; move hither and thither at random, especially over a wide area.
• trail — to drag or let drag along the ground or other surface; draw or drag along behind.
• tramp — to tread or walk with a firm, heavy, resounding step.
• vagabond — wandering from place to place without any settled home; nomadic: a vagabond tribe.
• circumlocute — to speak in a circuitous way
• circumnutate — to rotate slightly on a central axis
• follow one's nose — the part of the face or facial region in humans and certain animals that contains the nostrils and the organs of smell and functions as the usual passageway for air in respiration: in humans it is a prominence in the center of the face formed of bone and cartilage, serving also to modify or modulate the voice.
• hopscotch — a children's game in which a player tosses or kicks a small flat stone, beanbag, or other object into one of several numbered sections of a diagram marked on the pavement or ground and then hops on one foot over the lines from section to section and picks up the stone or object, usually while standing on one foot in an adjacent section.
• digress — to deviate or wander away from the main topic or purpose in speaking or writing; depart from the principal line of argument, plot, study, etc.
• veer — to change direction or turn about or aside; shift, turn, or change from one course, position, inclination, etc., to another: The speaker kept veering from his main topic. The car veered off the road.
• babble — If someone babbles, they talk in a confused or excited way.
• depart — When something or someone departs from a place, they leave it and start a journey to another place.
• err — Be mistaken or incorrect; make a mistake.
• rave — to talk wildly, as in delirium.
• shift — to put (something) aside and replace it by another or others; change or exchange: to shift friends; to shift ideas.
• swerve — to turn aside abruptly in movement or direction; deviate suddenly from the straight or direct course.
• go astray — person: deviate from correct or good way