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gallivant
[gal-uh-vant, gal-uh-vant] 
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gallivant
[gal-uh-vant, gal-uh-vant]
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| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | run around, gad about |
| Synonyms: | cruise, jaunt, meander, mooch, ramble, range, roam, rove, stray, traipse, wander |
| Antonyms: | behave |
| Main Entry: | drift |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | move aimlessly |
| Synonyms: | accumulate, aim, amass, amble, be carried along, coast, dance, draw near, flicker, flit, flitter, float, flow, flutter, gad, gallivant*, gather, go with the tide, go-that-a-way, gravitate, hover, kick around, linger, malinger, meander, mosey, muck, ride, sail, saunter, scud, skim, slide, stray, stroll, tend, waft, wander, wash* |
| Antonyms: | decide, direct, guide, set |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | gad |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | roam about |
| Synonyms: | cruise, gallivant, hit the road, hit the trail, jaunt, knock about, knock around, maunder, mooch, ramble, range, rove, run around, stray, traipse, wander |
| Main Entry: | meander |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | wander, zigzag |
| Synonyms: | be all over the map, change, drift, extravagate, gallivant, get sidetracked, peregrinate, ramble, range, recoil, roam, rove, snake, stray, stroll, traipse, turn, twine, twist, vagabond, wind |
| Notes: | maunder means to talk incoherently or to speak in a rambling manner or to wander aimlessly or confusedly; meander means to wind or turn in a course or to move in a leisurely way |
| Antonyms: | go direct, stay on path |
| Main Entry: | ramble |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | wander about; travel aimlessly |
| Synonyms: | amble, bat around, be all over the map, branch off, clamber, climb, cruise, depart, digress, divagate, diverge, drift, excurse, extend, fork, gad, gallivant, get sidetracked, knock about, knock around, meander, perambulate, percolate, peregrinate, promenade, range, roam, rove, saunter, scramble, snake, sprangle, sprawl, spread, spread-eagle, straddle, straggle, stray, stroll, trail, traipse, turn, twist, walk, wind, zigzag |
| Antonyms: | be direct, stay |
| Main Entry: | range |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | wander, roam |
| Synonyms: | circumambulate, cover, cross, cruise, drift, encompass, explore, float, follow one's nose, gallivant, globe-trot, hit the road, hit the trail, make circuit, meander, pass over, ply, prowl, ramble, reach, reconnoiter, rove, scour, search, spread, straggle, stray, stroll, sweep, traipse, tramp, travel, traverse, trek |
| Antonyms: | be direct |
| Main Entry: | roam |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | wander about |
| Synonyms: | bum around, bum*, drift, gad, gallivant, hike, hit the road, knock around, meander, peregrinate, prowl, ramble, range, rove, saunter, straggle, stray, stroll, struggle along, traipse, tramp, travel, traverse, trek, vagabond, walk |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | stray |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | wander; get lost |
| Synonyms: | be abandoned, be lost, deviate, drift, err, gad, gallivant, go all over the map, go amiss, go astray, lose one's way, meander, ramble, range, roam, rove, straggle, swerve, traipse, turn, wander away, wander off |
| Antonyms: | go direct |
| Main Entry: | stroll |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | walk along lazily |
| Synonyms: | amble, cruise, drift, gallivant, linger, make one's way, mope, mosey, promenade, ramble, roam, rove, sashay, saunter, toddle, traipse, tramp, wander |
| Antonyms: | run |
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