Reverse Dictionary: ROAM

ADJECTIVES
► EXTRAVAGANT wandering out of bounds; straying, roaming, vagrant → 1604 obs.
► FANCY-LOOSE ready to roam at will → 1850
► GALLANTING roving, roaming → 1873 Sc.
► MUNDIVAGANT wandering about the world, roaming through the world → 1656 obs.
► OMNIVAGANT wandering or roaming everywhere or in all directions → 1656
► PLANETICOSE given to wandering or roaming → 1849
► VAGABONDIAL roaming, wandering, vagabondish → 1615 obs.
► VAGABONDICAL roaming, wandering, vagabondish → 1576
► VAGABUNDICAL roaming, wandering → 1576
► VAGANT wandering, roaming, roving; travelling or moving from place to place; having no settled home or abiding place → 1382 obs.
► VAGARIOUS wandering, roaming, roving → 1882
► VAIG wandering, roaming; quickly swept away → 1791 Sc. obs.
► VAIGISH roaming, vagrant → 1880 Sc.
► WAITH wandering, roaming → 1710 Sc. obs.

NOUNS
► SCAFF the act of going about idly, roaming around in search of amusement or on the scrounge → 1866 Sc.
► SCAMP idle wandering, roaming about → 1866 Sc.
► VAGARY a wandering or devious journey or tour; a roaming about or abroad; an excursion, ramble, stroll → 1577 obs.
► VAGATION the act of wandering, straying, or departing from the proper or regular course; a wandering, rambling, or roaming → c1340 obs.

NOUNS – PERSON
► GADABOUT one who gads about, esp. from motives of curiosity or gossip; an idle, rambling person; a person who is always roaming from home, usually applied to a woman who is over-fond of visiting → 1837 colloq. & Eng. dial.
► GADLING ► GEDLING a wanderer, a traveller; a roamer → 1542 obs.
► LAND-LOUPER one who roams about the country idly or to escape the law; a vagrant, a roving vagabond, an adventurer, a scamp → 1720 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► MILESTONE-MONGER a person who likes to roam; a tramp → 1945 US Western sl. (Bk.)
► NIGHT-HAWK a person who roams about by night; a vagabond → 1825 Sc. 
► NIGHT-RAKER one who roams by night → 1897 Sc. 
► RAK one who wanders or roams about idly → 1908 Sc.
► SHOOLER one who roams or idles about → 1916 Amer. dial.

PHRASES
► ON THE ARFY-DARFY on the roam; tramping, hoboing  → 1964 US sl.

VERBS
► BANDY to wander or roam about → Bk1898 Eng. dial.
► CATERWAUL to roam at night, as in search of sexual partners → 1785 sl.
► EXTRAVAGATE to wander at large; to roam at will → 1766
► GOMPUS to roam, to travel about for pleasure → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► HARRIGOAD ► HARRY-GAUD to go about in a wild, flighty manner; to ramble, to roam about → 1876 Eng. dial.
► HAVE SHOES MADE OF RUNNING LEATHER to be given to wandering; to move restlessly from place to place; to be a roamer or rover → 1575 obs.
► HAZE ABOUT to roam about aimlessly; to loaf about → 1841
► INDIAN ► INDIAN UP to roam or move about, esp. stealthily; to sneak up → 1869 Amer. dial.
► QUILL-WHEEL to roam about → 1953 Amer. dial.
► RAIL to go about, to wander, to roam → c1400 obs. rare
► RAK to wander, to roam → 1967 Sc.
► RAKE to go, to proceed, esp. with speed; to run; also, to go or wander about, to roam, to stray, to ramble; to stroll about idly; to gad about → a1023 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► RAMPSE to rush or roam about, esp. in search of sexual encounters; to gad about, to gallivant → 1929 Amer. dial.
► RANT to roam about, staring into shop windows → 1896 Eng. dial.
► RAVE to roam, to stray → 1841 Sc.
► REEL to romp, to rush; to travel, to roam → 1791 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► RODER to roam, to prowl about → 1983 Amer. dial.
► ROIL to roam or rove about → ME obs.
► SCAFF to wander about in an idle manner; to roam around → 1866 Sc.
► SCAMBLE to ramble, to roam up and down → 1859 Eng. dial.
► SCAMP to go about in an idle manner, to roam, to rove around, often with the idea of intended mischief → 1866 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► SCANGE to roam about → Bk1904 Eng. dial.
► SCAVAIG to roam or gad about → 1932 Sc.
► SHOAL ► SHOOL ► SHULE to roam or idle about; to loaf, to saunter → 1874 Amer. dial.
► SI-FOG ► SI-FOG AROUND to roam or loaf about; to ramble about aimlessly → 1968 Amer. dial.
► SPATIATE to walk about, to stroll; to wander, roam, rove, or ramble → 1626
► STRAVAGE to roam about idly (rhymes with ‘plague’) → 1910 Ireland (Bk.)
► TAIVER ► TAVER to roam about aimlessly or idly; to dally, to trifle, to waste time → 1808 Sc.
► VAGARY to wander or roam → 1598 obs.
► VAGE to wander about idly; to roam in an aimless way; to gad about → 1701 Sc.
► VAGITATE to roam or travel → 1614 obs.
► VAGRANT to behave like a vagrant; to ramble or roam → 1886 rare
► VAGUE to wander; to range, to roam; to ramble idly or as a vagrant → 1425 Sc. obs.
► VAIG to wander about idly; to roam in an aimless way; to stroll; to gad about → 1701 Sc. & Eng. dial.