Walk Around

Definition: Walk Around

Walk Around

Verb

1. Walk with no particular goal; "we were walking around in the garden".

2. Walk around something.

3. Behave in a certain manner or have certain properties; "He walks around with his nose in the air"; "She walks around with this strange boyfriend".

4. Walk randomly; "We were walking around in the neighborhood to see whether we could find an open drugstore".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Slang

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Synonyms: Walk Around

Crosswords: Walk Around

Oh yeah, Chloe Chloe looked the way Meryl Streep's skeleton would look if you made it smile and walk around the party being extra nice to everybody (Fight Club; writing credit: Jim Uhls)

As long as you're doing things for me, will you tie up your bathrobe when you walk around the house (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

They just walk around, eating, and not mating (Gladiator; writing credit: David Franzoni)

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of viewUntil you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it. (To Kill a Mockingbird; writing credit: Harper Lee; Horton Foote)

I mean, with all due respect, you sort of walk around with uppity breasts, and the hair flips aren't the most subtle (Ally McBeal; writing credit: Henri Vernes)

I took a walk around the world to ease my troubled mind (Kryptonite; performing artist: 3 Doors Down)

Blue are the people here that walk around (Blue (Da Ba Dee); performing artist: Eiffel 65)

You walk around on me (My Way; performing artist: Limp Bizkit)

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Books

• Into a Desert Place: A 3000 Mile Walk Around the Coast of Baja California (reference)

• The Sea on Our Left: A Couple's Ten Month Walk Around Britain's Coastline (reference)

• A walk around the Lakes : observations relative chiefly to the picturesque beauty, for those desirous of being guided to the Lake District in the North-West of England, particularly the lakes, mountains, and valleys, made on a pedestrian tour in the year (reference)

• Walk Around F-14 Tomcat (Walk Around, No 3) (reference)

  (more book examples)

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The Walk around Saco Lake, White Mountains, N.H. Credit: Library of Congress.

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One time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them

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Chinese 

躚 (hesitate, manner of dancing, pace back and forth, waver). (various references)

Czech

obcházet (bypass, circumvent, get round, go round, walk about). (various references)

German

herumlaufen (go about, go around, run around, run round, wander), herumgehen (get around, go about, go around, go round, run about, skirt, wander around), auf und ab führen. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

巡り歩く (to travel around, to walk around). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

めぐりあるく (to travel around, to walk around). (various references)

Pig Latin

alkway arounday.(various references)

Spanish

pasearse (drive, foresight, go for a walk, mosey, parade up and down, promenade, ramble, saunter, stroke, stroll, walk, walk about, walking, wander), dar una vuelta (go for a walk, go round, walk off, wheel). (various references)

Turkish

gezinmek (bat around, get around, go for a stroll, go for a walk, hang about, hang around, mosey, perambulate, promenade, roam, rove, rove about, stray, stroll, take a stroll, take a walk, walk about, wander, wander about), gezdirmek (give a ride, promenade, show around, take walk for a walk, trot round, walk, walk about), etrafını dolaşmak (circle, circumambulate, circumnavigate, round), dolaştırmak (circulate, dash, embrangle, entangle, entwine, foul, foul up, hand on, intwine, kink, knot, Ravel, take for a walk, tangle, trot round, walk, walk about, walk out), dolaşmak (air oneself, bat around, be afloat, become tangled, browse around, circuit, circulate, float, flow, go about, go around, go for a jaunt, go for a stroll, go for a walk, go on a jaunt, hike, itinerate, jaunt, jauntiness, kink, knot, look round, mat, mosey, perambulate, range, roam, rove, stray, stroll, take a stroll, take a walk, travel, walk, walk about, wander). (various references)

Ukrainian

хоровод (roundelay), блукати (divagate, moon, prowl, ramble, roam, rove, walk, wander). (various references)

spatior. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: nodular.

-4 letters: anodal, anorak, anural, around, koruna, ladron, landau, lardon, lurdan, narwal, onward, radula, ranula, undraw, unload.

-5 letters: adorn, adown, aland, aloud, aural, award, doura, drank, drawl, drawn, drouk, drown, drunk, dural, knaur, knurl, koala, korun, kraal, krona, lauan, laura, loran, lunar, nodal, radon, round, rowan, ruana, ulnad, ulnar, waldo, woald, world, would.