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Ambulation

Ambulation \Am`bu*la"tion\, n. [L. ambulatio.] The act of walking.
--Sir T. Browne.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
ambulation

1540s, from Latin ambulationem (nominative ambulatio), noun of action from past participle stem of ambulare (see amble).

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ambulation

n. walking around

WordNet
ambulation

n. walking about; "the hospital encouraged early ambulation"

Usage examples of "ambulation".

Many of the depraved recombinations were incapable of erect ambulation, having blindly conjoined with limbs of too great disparity—or fused arms to knees, thighs to shoulders.

Now that he could no longer lure raw meat to fuel his ambulations (for there were neither birds nor squirrels in the ark), he had sunken his roots permanently.

Ambulation was certainly an interesting way of categorising people, of partially defining them, of trying to guess something about their personalities.

The Politics Of Ambulation moved on to power-walks: the Strut, the Busy Bee, the Proprietor.