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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
stroll
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
gentle exercise/walk/stroll etc
▪ a program of regular gentle exercise
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
along
▪ There is a wealth of detail to absorb before strolling along to visit the locomotive sheds.
▪ Smiling residents stroll along a cozy, old-fashioned street; the police chief stops and chats with passing motorists.
▪ He looked nonchalant enough as he strolled along the Bayswater Road, but inwardly Creed was a mess of nerves.
▪ Whether drinking coffee with his production people, chatting to his secretary or strolling along the corridor, his approach is professional.
▪ I was very shy but his mischievous grin put me at my ease and we strolled along behind Sally and her beau.
▪ She had managed the steps with Coventry's help and she was strolling along, pushing the lightweight chair.
▪ After that meeting with John, Anne often met him strolling along near her home and always stopped to talk to him.
around
▪ So this was London at last, and nothing gave me more pleasure than strolling around my new possession all day.
▪ As he waited for Anthony, he strolled around looking at the streaked gilt mock Gothic with unforced affection.
▪ Couples were strolling around, or sitting on seats rocking prams.
▪ Men in shirtsleeves and women in summer dresses were strolling around the airport and ice-cream vendors were doing a brisk trade.
▪ Then I strolled around the city for a couple of hours, knowing that Dana would not be awake before noon.
▪ Franky contented himself with strolling around with his blindfold still over his face.
▪ We strolled around as though we were in an art gallery.
away
▪ What he actually did was to stroll away down-river, right along the perimeter.
▪ Kennedy asked, and strolled away.
▪ Handing her the pieces, he sketched a little salute, and strolled away.
▪ Nikos and Niall strolled away, laughing together.
▪ Lorton strolled away to a shop which sold office equipment.
▪ The nearest beach is only 400 metres away, while the main beach is a mere 650 metres stroll away.
back
▪ In the afternoon, I strolled back into town beneath a blue sky.
▪ He strolled back into the kitchen and she glowered at his departing back.
▪ I parked up and strolled back along the street.
▪ Toby, leaving a judicious interval, strolled back towards the classrooms.
▪ Afterwards the fond couple will stroll back on to the street, and part.
▪ He returned to John, and they strolled back toward the castle and the site of the railway bridge.
▪ They strolled back home down the tunnelled lane and called in at the Littles' cottage and the Vicarage on the way.
down
▪ Peering out a few seconds later, Manville saw him turn and begin to stroll down the street.
▪ After a time, he strolled down to the darkening lake.
▪ There is a long promenade to stroll down, but the focal point of the resort is the village square.
▪ Not even when they start strolling down to the staff room without her.
▪ Andrew can imagine Victorians strolling down.
▪ He danced across a tightrope as easily as he strolled down a coun-try lane.
▪ What would it feel like to stroll down New Bond Street and pick out those objects as easily as picking blackberries?
▪ He strolled down Edith Grove and into the King's Road, enjoying the morning sun.
in
▪ Then brother Jack strolled in and he wasted no time in chatting them up.
▪ Eventually she strolled in to join them.
▪ Before the war I can remember coming up to town and parking the car outside the theatre and just strolling in.
▪ Just then brother Jack came strolling in to collect the rest of his clothes.
off
▪ Eventually the guard strolls off to press the button.
▪ As a result he was in a mental hospital, from which he escaped merely by strolling off the grounds.
▪ They act like huge and flightless cuckoos, as they stroll off and take no part in parental care.
▪ Mr Johnson could have strolled off a Wheaties box.
▪ Alfred the Learned strolled off to one of the huts.
▪ Whether successful or not, the hunter would make a charming farewell and stroll off to make another conquest.
on
▪ I strolled on down the edge of the ninth fairway in the gradually strengthening sun.
▪ I strolled on into the arbour.
▪ Charlie strolled on up to the front like some visiting tourist who was not involved in a war.
▪ Acting is not a profession where you can simply stroll on - although I know a lot of fine actors have done that.
▪ As he strolled on towards the pub he was surprised at the number of people that were about.
▪ The man who'd just strolled on to the terrace was tall, very lean, very dark.
out
▪ Later, we stroll out and pop them in our mailbox, which says T.T.
▪ Jean Reece-Carlton strolled out on to the terrace to inspect it.
▪ He worked all day on his opera, stopping only to eat and stroll out, alone, into the field.
▪ The envelope remained in my pocket for another half hour, after which time I casually strolled out to the gents.
▪ Felicity replaced the blotter and strolled out on to the terrace.
▪ I stroll out on to the balcony and breathe in the night air.
▪ We left the place and strolled out to the cars.
▪ Needing fresh air, I strolled out into the town.
over
▪ He stood and strolled over to the box.
▪ Governmentlicensed camel drivers also stroll over.
▪ He strolled over towards the New Town in which Sylvia had managed to secure a flat.
▪ As usual, she strolled over to drink in the view - mistress of all she surveyed.
▪ Bragg strolled over to the window.
▪ As play was held up Bucknor strolled over to the scene of the trouble and appealed for calm.
▪ I strolled over to a bar stool, mounted up and set Barry down in an ashtray.
▪ Then I switched off the music centre and strolled over to the window to take a last look at the night outside.
round
▪ The accountant strolled round to the driver's side, got in, revved up the engine and drove the champion home.
▪ Eventually we decided that, as it was such a lovely evening, we'd stroll round the village.
▪ The painters were envious of Zbo's life, strolling round the big hotels in style.
▪ Instead of returning through the back entrance of the house, though, she strolled round to the front.
up
▪ Trent strolled up the path to Jimmy's Bar.
▪ Howard strolls up Sixth Avenue in the afternoon sunlight.
▪ Bryan Thomson's match was already at the first tee when Patrick strolled up with the bag of clubs over his shoulder.
▪ He strolled up and down the aisles, sat at his desk when he wanted to outstare them.
▪ The unmitigated gall of the man, strolling up at this time and expecting a welcome.
▪ Unobtrusively Middlemass strolled up beside him and, back to the company, reached up to take a book from the shelf.
■ NOUN
house
▪ As Patrick and Senga strolled into the house a few moments later, Katherine suddenly heard her son sneeze explosively.
man
▪ The unmitigated gall of the man, strolling up at this time and expecting a welcome.
▪ The man who'd just strolled on to the terrace was tall, very lean, very dark.
▪ In the blanketing silence nothing moved - except for one small man strolling towards the opening between the walls.
▪ They emerge An invisible disgorging of the sea's cold Over the man who strolls along the sands.
path
▪ Trent strolled up the path to Jimmy's Bar.
people
▪ I hung about further down the street, hoping not to be seen by the few people who were strolling there.
▪ Folks walked to work, and young people strolled with their dates on a night out.
▪ After services many people strolled the adjacent footpath through fields that led from the church to Low Harrogate.
▪ There we would sit and watch people as they strolled by.
street
▪ Peering out a few seconds later, Manville saw him turn and begin to stroll down the street.
▪ We rode into San Francisco and strolled through the streets.
▪ I parked up and strolled back along the street.
▪ Afterwards the fond couple will stroll back on to the street, and part.
▪ He strolled the Tenderloin streets for a while, almost enjoying the city and his return.
▪ Kirov dismissed Ybreska from his mind as he strolled leisurely through the streets.
▪ When we used to stroll in the streets, men would stop to stare not on my account, but on hers.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ They strolled along the riverbank, enjoying the evening sun.
▪ We drove to Penrhyn Castle, and strolled around the beautiful gardens there.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He strolled into the only other room that wasn't a bedroom.
▪ He decided to walk and circle back, strolling like it was in the May sunshine.
▪ He recently strolled to the office on size-14 wing-tip shoes, which smartly complemented his white suit.
▪ Just strolling through, Ralph found his eyelashes coated, his teeth gritty.
▪ Newland Archer, as became a young man of his position, strolled in somewhat late.
▪ Peering out a few seconds later, Manville saw him turn and begin to stroll down the street.
▪ She spun round as he strolled into view behind her.
▪ Trent strolled up the path to Jimmy's Bar.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stroll

Stroll \Stroll\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Strolled; p. pr. & vb. n. Strolling.] [Cf. Dan. stryge to stroll, Sw. stryka to stroke, to ramble, dial. Sw. strykel one who strolls about, Icel. strj?ka to stroke, D. struikelen to stumble, G. straucheln. Cf. Struggle.] To wander on foot; to ramble idly or leisurely; to rove.

These mothers stroll to beg sustenance for their helpless infants.
--Swift.

Syn: To rove; roam; range; stray.

Stroll

Stroll \Stroll\, n. A wandering on foot; an idle and leisurely walk; a ramble.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
stroll

c.1600, a cant word introduced from the Continent, probably from dialectal German strollen, variant of Swiss German strolchen "to stroll about, loaf," from Strolch "vagabond, vagrant," also "fortuneteller," perhaps from Italian astrologo "astrologer." Related: Strolled; strolling.

stroll

1753, from stroll (v.).

Wiktionary
stroll

n. A wandering on foot; an idle and leisurely walk; a ramble. vb. To wander on foot; to ramble idly or leisurely; to rove.

WordNet
stroll

  1. n. a leisurely walk (usually in some public place) [syn: amble, promenade, ramble, saunter, perambulation]

  2. v. walk leisurely and with no apparent aim [syn: saunter]

Wikipedia
Stroll (album)

Stroll, along with Stomp, are the eighth and ninth studio albums by the Boston ska punk band Big D and the Kids Table, released on June 11, 2013 by Strictly Rude Records.

Dedicated to the memory of Martin Richard, Krystle Campbell, Lingzi Lu, Sean Collier and the many wounded at 2013 Boston Marathon bombing.

Usage examples of "stroll".

Limpkin was finally beginning to rid himself of his acrophobia and began to stroll around the deck.

The allopathist strolled along, from time to time using this stick to point out a particularly fine example of stonework, and idly spinning the stick in an apparently nonchalant but very practiced way, and none of the Rodeni approached him.

She was so much back to normal, so much enjoying herself, that she did not even notice Adam was strolling to the door or that the Frenchman was leaving his two pretty girls- Bannerman had rejoined Bradley with a joking remark, while Bradley ordered something to eat with a look of distaste for the limited menu.

As they proceeded, four bedraggled males popped suddenly out of the intended pink and strolled in the opposite direction.

They were belated revellers, and had been carelessly strolling under the pinky cloudlets bedward, after a prolonged carousal with the sons and daughters of hilarious nations, until the apparition of Virgin Luck on the wing shocked all prospect of a dead fight with the tables that day.

Quigg watched benignly for a few minutes this commencement of my studies, and then strolled back towards the house.

Englishmen strolled into the cool, dark mosque, where heavy Eastern scents of musk and benzoin had lain all night like fugitives in sanctuary, and where the roof was held up by cypress poles instead of marble pillars, as in the grand mosques of big cities.

Watering-place life is notoriously conducive to idleness of mind, and Bernard strolled for half an hour along the overarched avenue, glancing alternately at these two insupposable cases.

Cailet bespelled for privacy told her that her powerful family could stroll right through whatever she created.

At this moment Blotto, with the air of a strolling player, ambled into the room.

After pushing through the crowd at the foyer, Brigg strolled around the rim of the activity.

After tea she invited her nephew and niece to a stroll through her garden, while she exhibited her pets with a very excusable pride in their variety, beauty, and fragrance.

So saying, Zurick strolled past the table and accompanied Mallan to the door.

Antonio watched with sad puppy eyes as Christian, who had been listening to Jem tell how he had Asmodeus in a headlock, followed by a mangier move, strolled over to me and slid his arm around my waist.

Christian, who had been listening to Jem tell how he had Asmodeus in a headlock, followed by a mangier move, strolled over to me and slid his arm around my waist.