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Roving   /rˈoʊvɪŋ/   Listen
Roving

adjective
1.
Migratory.  Synonyms: mobile, nomadic, peregrine, wandering.  "The nomadic habits of the Bedouins" , "Believed the profession of a peregrine typist would have a happy future" , "Wandering tribes"
noun
1.
Travelling about without any clear destination.  Synonyms: vagabondage, wandering.



Rove

verb
(past & past part. roved; pres. part. roving)
1.
Move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment.  Synonyms: cast, drift, ramble, range, roam, roll, stray, swan, tramp, vagabond, wander.  "Roving vagabonds" , "The wandering Jew" , "The cattle roam across the prairie" , "The laborers drift from one town to the next" , "They rolled from town to town"



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"Roving" Quotes from Famous Books



... feel badly about it. I know how you all felt toward me. But I'm on a roving commission. I have no wireless apparatus and no definite instructions. I've been lampooned and ridiculed in the papers, and I'm going to give them my answer—that is, as I said, if I'm any good. If I'm not I'll ...
— The Wreck of the Titan - or, Futility • Morgan Robertson

... the caves and was roving amongst them, he heard steps retreating before him and an imperfect rustling sound. He gave pursuit, and caught a breathless woman who besought him not to deliver ...
— The World's Greatest Books, Vol VIII • Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton, Eds.

... determined. "We'll stop there to break the news. Then we'll be wedded, you and I, according to the custom of your people. Our honeymoon—years of it—will be spent in the Nomad, roving the universe. Mado'll agree, I know. Wanderers of the heavens we'll be, Ora. But we'll have each other; and when we've—you've—had enough of it, I'll be ready to settle down. Anywhere you say. ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November, 1930 • Various

... Those bulging brief-cases had apparently contained the dearest of his roving brother's possessions, judging from the way Rupert had fussed if they were a ...
— Ralestone Luck • Andre Norton

... Wahpanucka of the Delawares did not agree. So the little band of Delawares continued rambling until they reached the Choctaw Nation, where they again tried to make terms with the Chief of the tribe. Evidently no agreement was reached between that Chief and Wahpanucka, for the Delawares continued their roving until they reached the Chickasaw Nation, ...
— The Book of the National Parks • Robert Sterling Yard


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