perambulate

Verb

perambulate (third-person singular simple present perambulates, present participle perambulating, simple past and past participle perambulated)

1. (intransitive) To walk around, roam, or stroll.
   • Near-synonym: ambulate (sometimes synonymous)
   • Take, for instance, one of the most wretched classes of the community, the poor fellows who perambulate the streets as Sandwich Men. These are farmed out by certain firms.1890, William Booth, “The regimentation of the unemployed”, in In Darkest England and the Way Out

   Synonyms:

   ambulate

2. (transitive) To inspect (an area) on foot.
   • The officials, in their gowns of grey, with a white St. Andrew’s cross on back and breast, and a white cloth carried before them on a staff, perambulated the city, adding the terror of man’s justice to the fear of God’s visitation.1903, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter IV, in Edinburgh