Meaning & use
perambulate
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To walk about or travel through a place, especially in a leisurely way.
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They spent the afternoon perambulating the old town's cobbled streets.
The professor liked to perambulate the campus grounds while thinking through a problem.
A note on using this word
From Latin "perambulare" ("to walk through"), the word historically also described the formal act of walking a parish boundary to confirm its limits.
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