strolling

Verb

stroll (third-person singular simple present strolls, present participle strolling, simple past and past participle strolled)

1. To wander on foot; to ramble idly or leisurely; to rove.
   • In Ancient Times, as Story tells, / The Saints would often leave their Cells, / And ſtrole about, but hide their Quality, / To try good Peoples Hoſpitality.1708, [Jonathan Swift], “The Metamorphosis of Baucis and Philemon, Burlesqu’d; from the 8th Book of Ovid”, in Baucis and Philemon; a Poem. […], London: […] H. Hills, […], published 1709, →OCLC, page 3
2. To go somewhere with ease.
   • [A] delighted shout from the children swung him toward the door again. His sister, Mrs. Gerard, stood there in carriage gown and sables, radiant with surprise. "Phil! You! Exactly like you, Philip, to come strolling in from the antipodes—dear fellow!" recovering from the fraternal embrace and...1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “His Own People”, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC, page 15
3. (intransitive, slang) To walk the streets as a prostitute.
   • "Nammers?" She'd told him before of some Vietnamese gang pressuring her to stroll for them. / "Don't even ask. You don't want to know."1998, Joseph Ferone, Boomboom, page 24
4. (intransitive) To do, obtain, or achieve something in a casual and effortless way.
   • My daughter strolled through the exam.

   Synonyms:

   breeze, ride, coast, romp, waltz

   Antonyms:

   labor, scrape, squeeze, limp, squeak

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