rove

3 definitions • 7 examples

to move or travel around an area, especially a large one:

Some vets spend their time roving around in a truck tending to horses and cattle.

And now a live report from our roving reporter, Martin Jackson.

He spent most of his life roving the world in search of his fortune.

If someone's hands or eyes rove, they touch or look in many different places, especially in a sexual way or when they should not do this:

She let her hands rove over his smooth hard muscles.

By his own admission he had a roving eye and was easily infatuated.

He was mostly quiet along the way, eyes roving the shore.

to move, travel, or look around an area, without having a particular place you intend to go to:

[ I ] He roved around town, looking for work.