Wiktionary
vb. (context intransitive English) To move from place to place
Usage examples of "move about".
So, in virtue of this last appeal, convictism had established a tacit right to converse in whispers, and to move about inside its oaken cage.
Men and women and boys and girls move about the farm, happy in their labors, and far, far away dwell the mountain gods, who send the great Yellow River sweeping down through the valleys where the poppy is in bloom.
Do you know that our friends are so astonished at this frightful calamity, that they move about like men half awakened from a dream?
He is so undernourished that he can no longer move about, but he cannot die either, so he lies in his casket and dreams of times gone by.
They could hardly move about in broad daylight, and the appearance of the animal life in their vicinity convinced her that in this hex pigs belonged only in zoos.
Guerrillas were able to move about at will, almost under their snouts.
All merchants shall have safe and secure exit from England, and entry to England, with the right to tarry there and to move about as well by land as by water, for buying and selling by the ancient and right customs, quit from all evil tolls, except (in time of war) such merchants as are of the land at war with us.
He began to move about with the restlessness of a wild animal that sees prey but cannot reach it.
A video camera photographs people in a room as they move about and then feeds their images to a computer.
He longed to move about in the kangaroo hop made famous on the Apollo missions.