Synonyms of roaming

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adjective

as in nomadic

traveling from place to place

a roaming circus that plays small towns across the country

Synonyms & Similar Words

• nomadic
• nomad
• wandering
• peregrine
• ambulatory
• migrant
• roving
• ranging
• on the move
• itinerant
• peripatetic
• ambulant
• vagrant
• wayfaring
• migratory
• errant
• vagabond
• walking
• fugitive
• gallivanting
• perambulatory
• drifting
• rambling
• meandering
• footloose
• sauntering
• traipsing
• strolling

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• static
• stationary
• standing
• settled
• immobile
• still
• motionless
• nonmoving

roaming

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verb

present participle of roam

as in wandering

to move about from place to place aimlessly

he took a year off and roamed over Europe before going on to college

Synonyms & Similar Words

• wandering
• strolling
• drifting
• cruising
• floating
• roving
• ranging
• meandering
• traipsing
• knocking (about)
• gallivanting
• rambling
• sauntering
• batting
• ambling
• mooching
• gadding (about)
• maundering
• kicking around
• dawdling
• moping
• straying
• tramping
• straggling
• vagabonding
• milling (about or around)
• hoboing

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of roaming

Verb

More than 180,000 giant tortoises roaming freely on our atoll is proof of what long-term commitment to conservation can achieve. — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 10 Oct. 2026

The mustang had been roaming near Liberty Reservoir after he was spooked by a lawnmower and jumped over a fence at the end of June. — Cbs Baltimore, CBS News, 8 Oct. 2026

Winter soon has the crowd eating out of his hand, his unmistakable voice roaming from an intentionally warbly baritone to a Thom Yorke-ish falsetto. — Conçetta Ciarlo, Vogue, 5 Oct. 2026

In January, the band launched the roaming Saturdays in the Park. — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2026

Aerial footage on Sunday showed a bomb disposal robot roaming between the vans in woods near the base. — Tim Lister, CNN Money, 28 Sep. 2026

The agency would also create standards covering sandbox testing environments; air gaps, or isolating testing environments from the internet; kill switches; and controls that prevent models from escaping lab settings and roaming on the Internet. — Garrett Downs, CNBC, 28 Sep. 2026

Aerial footage from Sky News appeared to show a bomb disposal robot roaming among three white vans. — Pan Pylas, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2026

The robot was reportedly seen roaming between the three vans. — Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 27 Sep. 2026