perambulating

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)

   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