rambleverb
[ I or T ]
If someone's hands or eyes roam, they touch or look in many different places, especially in a sexual way or when they should not do this:
She enjoys his company, but occasionally he lets his hands roam where they shouldn't.
We are sick of fighting off roaming hands on dates.
Her eyes boldly roamed the room.
[ I ]
to have sexual relationships or experiences outside of your marriage or usual relationship:
There are some people who are faithful and some who tend to roam.
She put up with a roaming husband in order to protect her child.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

General words for movement
betake
body English
budge
budge up
carry
circulate
gone
heaving
inertly
keepy-uppy
kinetic
kinetic energy
motion
pass
repair
repair to somewhere
round
scoot
seethe
shove

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Travelling
Relationships: infidelity

roamverb (PHONE SERVICE)

to connect to a mobile phone service that is not the one that you normally use, for example if you are in another country:
Trying to place an outbound mobile phone call results in an error message telling you that you are roaming.
You can stop your phone from roaming if you want to avoid big charges when abroad.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Communications - by telephone
0800 number
3G
4G
5G
access code
aeroplane mode
airplane mode
area code
buzz
caller ID
Freephone
ISDN
nomophobia
patch someone through
phone in
phone mast
pick
speakerphone
telephone
unlisted

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Communications - general words

roam | American Dictionary

roam
verb[ I/T ]
us/roʊm/
to walk or travel without any real purpose or direction:
[ I ]Our dog just likes to roam.

Examples of roam

roam
Livestock are allowed to roam unrestricted in these villages.
A punitive expedition of four thousand roamed the country murderously.
First, they roam and avoid various obstacles around them.
First, the manager will disregard the externality of the game roaming into the rangelands.
The war gave new voice to pre-war demands for the right to roam.
His father grounded the boy so that he would study and not roam in the streets.
One might suppose that those species (whales, birds) that are accustomed to roaming widely around the oceans could readily migrate in response to global warming.
She noted with concern the ' ' idle crowds ' ' and abandoned children roaming the streets bordered by run-down buildings in desperate need of repair.
The solution proposed here is inspired by ant foraging behaviour; mobile agents, representing ants, permanently roam the network performing management tasks.
Exposure to animals that had diarrhoea and access of the child to areas in which the pets roamed were also not associated with illness.
About 70% of families own one or more dogs living at home and stray dogs are frequently found roaming the city areas.
Then, a type system is defined that statically guarantees that each value can roam only within the corresponding region.
The authors themselves of the songs organised orchestras, brass bands, and choruses to roam the city performing their compositions.
And he ruled that the hares might roam freely.
Consider a robot programmed to roam the world, taking and storing digital photographs of kinds of things that its programmers have determined.
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