Synonyms of sauntering

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adjective

as in walking

Related Words

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

Dissimilar Words

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

sauntering

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verb

present participle of saunter

as in strolling

to travel by foot for exercise or pleasure

he lazily saunters about the French countryside, mostly photographing birds and flowers

Synonyms & Similar Words

• strolling
• walking
• wandering
• ambling
• hiking
• roaming
• tramping
• rambling
• perambulating
• marching
• traversing
• roving
• tromping
• traipsing
• trekking
• promenading
• peregrinating
• power walking

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of sauntering

Verb

The charter Girardeau sailed with was about four miles out and almost at the its trip when word of the hammerhead was radioed out — the crew decided to take a chance and sped up the coast 15 minutes to see the shark still sauntering in the sea. — Laylan Connelly, Oc Register, 24 Aug. 2026

Before sauntering down the stairwell to the dressing room, Stones stopped to sign autographs for fans in Inter’s pitchside hospitality suites. — James Horncastle, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2026

The visuals of fighters warming up inside the White House and sauntering down the Truman balcony, many wrapped in the American flag, was an unusual spectacle indeed. — Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA Today, 15 June 2026

Wrapped around a rubbery bassline that Peter ran through a guitar amp and played straight into a laptop, the song is confident and brassy, sauntering around as Kellie Eden’s trumpet cascades from above and the band’s co-vocalists provide pop harmonies. — Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 8 May 2026

Longtime employees recall Turner sauntering into the newsroom wearing a bathrobe. — Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 6 May 2026

Just over eight minutes were remaining on the clock when the buzz kicked up inside Spectrum Center again, all because the usual main attraction was sauntering to the scorer’s table. — Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 9 Jan. 2026

The anime community is well-represented too; fans in Chainsaw Man, Dan Da Dan, Demon Slayer and My Hero Academia costumes can be seen sauntering down the halls, snapping selfies together. — Nikki Birch, NPR, 31 Oct. 2025

Kids will love sending this Dilophosaurus sauntering across the floor, frightening everything and everyone in his path. — Pamela Brill, Parents, 2 Oct. 2025