stroll
verb/strəʊl/
/strəʊl/
[intransitive]Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they stroll | /strəʊl/ /strəʊl/ |
| he / she / it strolls | /strəʊlz/ /strəʊlz/ |
| past simple strolled | /strəʊld/ /strəʊld/ |
| past participle strolled | /strəʊld/ /strəʊld/ |
| -ing form strolling | /ˈstrəʊlɪŋ/ /ˈstrəʊlɪŋ/ |
- (+ adv./prep.) to walk somewhere in a slow relaxed way
- People were strolling along the beach.
Extra Examples- He hummed to himself as he strolled leisurely through the streets.
- They strolled down to the canal.
- He strolled over to where Sue was sitting.
- I strolled through the market stalls, stopping occasionally.
- We can't have students strolling in whenever they feel like it.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- casually
- leisurely
- slowly
- …
- across
- along
- around
- …
Word Originearly 17th cent. (in the sense ‘roam as a vagrant’): probably from German strollen, strolchen, from Strolch ‘vagabond’, of unknown ultimate origin.Definitions on the go
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