Move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment:
— The wandering Jew.

synonyms: cast, drift, ramble, range, roam, roll, rove, stray, swan, tramp, vagabond ... show more.

Roget 266: travel, journey, course; take a journey, go a journey; take a walk, go out for walk etc. n.; have a run; take the air.    flit, take wing; migrate, emigrate; trek; rove, prowl, roam, range, patrol, pace up and down, traverse; scour the country, traverse the country; peragrate^†; circumambulate, perambulate; nomadize^†, wander, ramble, stroll, saunter, hover, go one's rounds, straggle; gad, gad about; expatiate.    walk, march, step, tread, pace, plod, wend, go by shank's mare; promenade; trudge, tramp; stalk, stride, straddle, strut, foot it, hoof it, stump, bundle, bowl along, toddle; paddle; tread a path.    take horse, ride, drive, trot, amble, canter, prance, fisk^†, frisk, caracoler^†, caracole; gallop etc. (move quickly) 274.    [start riding] embark, board, set out, hit the road, get going, get underway.    peg on, jog on, wag on, shuffle on; stir one's stumps; bend one's steps, bend one's course; make one's way, find one's way, wend one's way, pick one's way, pick one's way, thread one's way, plow one's way; slide, glide, coast, skim, skate; march in procession, file on, defile.    go to, repair to, resort to, hie to, betake oneself to.    ... show more

Roget 279: alter one's course, deviate, depart from, turn, trend; bend, curve etc. 245; swerve, heel, bear off; gybe^†, wear.    intervert^†; deflect; divert, divert from its course; put on a new scent, shift, shunt, draw aside, crook, warp.    stray, straggle; sidle; diverge etc. 291; tralineate^†; digress, wander; wind, twist, meander; veer, tack; divagate; sidetrack; turn aside, turn a corner, turn away from; wheel, steer clear of; ramble, rove, drift; go astray, go adrift; yaw, dodge; step aside, ease off, make way for, shy.    fly off at a tangent; glance off; wheel about, face about; turn to the right about, face to the right about; waddle etc. (oscillate) 314; go out of one's way etc. (perform a circuit) 629; lose one's way.    ... show more

Roget 264: be in motion etc. adj.; move, go, hie, gang, budge, stir, pass, flit; hover about, hover round, hover about; shift, slide, glide; roll, roll on; flow, stream, run, drift, sweep along; wander etc. (deviate) 279; walk etc. 266; change one's place, shift one's place, change one's quarters, shift one's quarters; dodge; keep going, keep moving; put in motion, set in motion; move; impel etc. 276; propel etc. 284; render movable, mobilize.    ... show more

Roget 503: be insane etc. adj.. become insane etc. adj.; lose one's senses, lose one's reason, lose one's faculties, lose one's wits; go mad, run mad, lose one's marbles [Coll.], go crazy, go bonkers [Coll.], flip one's wig [Coll.], flip one's lid [Coll.], flip out [Coll.], flip one's bush [Coll.].    rave, dote, ramble, wander; drivel etc. (be imbecile) 499; have a screw loose etc. n., have a devil; avoir le diable au corps [Fr.]; lose one's head etc. (be uncertain) 475.    render mad, drive mad etc. adj.; madden, dementate^†, addle the wits, addle the brain, derange the head, infatuate, befool^†; turn the brain, turn one's head; drive one nuts [Coll.].    ... show more

Dutch: rondlopen, vreemdgaan, dolen, wandelen, rondwandelen, dwalen, ronddolen, zwerven

Be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage:
— Might her husband be wandering?.

synonyms: betray, cheat, cheat on, cuckold.

Dutch: bedriegen, echtbreken, hoorndrager, vals spelen, vreemdgaan

Go via an indirect route or at no set pace.

To move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course:
— Sometimes, the gout wanders through the entire body.

synonyms: meander, thread, weave, wind.

Dutch: meanderen

Lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking:
— Her mind wanders.

synonyms: digress, divagate, stray.

Dutch: afwijken, uitwijden, afdwalen