as in stroll
a relaxed journey on foot for exercise or pleasure
we had a lovely amble about the quaint village before continuing our drive
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Recent Examples of amble
Julia O'Driscoll, The Week Uk, theweek, 11 June 2024
The guitars’ rolling amble stops just short of a strut.
—Raymond Cummings, SPIN, 28 May 2024
Rory Smith, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2025
The route ambles between mossy rainforest and sandy stretches, where black bears forage and orcas and gray whales breach offshore.
—Outside Online, 12 Mar. 2025
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Noun
That's partly because time takes on a strangely elastic quality here – routines melt away, activities are leisurely, and an amble across an island can take anywhere from a few minutes to a few hours, depending on how willing the walker is to take a less well-trodden path.
—Julia O'Driscoll, The Week Uk, theweek, 11 June 2024
The guitars’ rolling amble stops just short of a strut.
—Raymond Cummings, SPIN, 28 May 2024
Verb
The final whistle goes, calling time on a 5-0 win, and the crowd of a few hundred ambles out of the Mohammedan Sporting Ground and into the hazy glow of a Kolkata Sunday afternoon.
—Rory Smith, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2025
The route ambles between mossy rainforest and sandy stretches, where black bears forage and orcas and gray whales breach offshore.
—Outside Online, 12 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for amble
Verb
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Bravo’s comments about Woodley come after the pair were first spotted strolling in Paris together last month.—
Gabrielle Rockson,
People.com,
4 Apr. 2025
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Spend an afternoon strolling around downtown’s Market Square and enjoying the ample greenspace at World’s Fair Park.—
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
4 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Of course, the process of reviving these animals was no walk in the park.—
Nicole Hoey,
Robb Report,
7 Apr. 2025
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Sure, no zombie show is exactly a walk in the park, but watching The Last of Us is an especially draining experience, pairing abrupt graphic violence with a suffocatingly bleak worldview.—
Dave Nemetz,
TVLine,
7 Apr. 2025
Verb
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From there, a large portion of that audience sauntered a block away on South First Street to party at the Pete Be Center, a yet-to-open venue for live music that looks ready to go (and is an entire transformation of when the space was Uproar Brewery a few years back).—
Sal Pizarro,
Mercury News,
26 Mar. 2025
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Kenny Chesney takes over the Sphere stage in May after Dead & Company's run is over and the Backstreet Boys saunter in come July. U2: Band's Sphere concert film is staggeringly lifelike.—
Mike Snider,
USA TODAY,
20 Mar. 2025
Verb
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The banal village tunes that Mahler altered into sinister mock vulgarities—did these not recall the raffish klezmer bands, the wandering musicians who played at shtetl weddings?—
David Denby,
The Atlantic,
1 Apr. 2025
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The vehicle wandered across the road far more than any already ill-handling Defender should, its brakes were weak, and gear shifts were accompanied by a prominent clunk.—
Basem Wasef,
Robb Report,
1 Apr. 2025
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“Amble.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/amble. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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