The Collaborative International Dictionary
Perambulate \Per*am"bu*late\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Perambulated; p. pr. & vb. n. Perambulating.] [L. perambulatus, p. p. of perambulare to perambulate; per through + ambulare to walk. See Per-, and Amble.] To walk through or over; especially, to travel over for the purpose of surveying or examining; to inspect by traversing; specifically, to inspect officially the boundaries of, as of a town or parish, by walking over the whole line.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of perambulate English)
WordNet
adj. strolling or walking around; "perambulating nursemaids with their charges"
Usage examples of "perambulating".
No Sackett had ever shot another, and I wasn't itching to be the first We'd never had much truck with those Clinch Mountain Sacketts, for they were a rough lot, having to do with moonshining and perambulating up and down the Wilderness Trail or the Natchez Trace for no good purpose.
A wild laugh, almost a howl, disturbed the talk of the most adjacent of the perambulating relations.
She proceeded, gazing down the while at the perambulating George, to give it thought.
For the young monkeys, it was as if a wondrous perambulating, talking jungle gym had wandered into their midst, exclusively for their enjoyment.
In the company of a perambulating curiosity like Etjole Ehomba, he decided, it was important for one to concentrate with unwavering determination on the path between the two, lest one’s world suddenly slip out of focus.
Following the line formed by the two soft opposing digits, Jemunu-jah found himself looking at what at first glance appeared to be a pair of transparent perambulating storage containers advancing up the walkway.