Synonyms of the word

prowl

• v. To rove over, through, or about in a stealthy manner; especially, to search in, as for prey or booty.
• v. To idle; to go about aimlessly.
• v. (obsolete) To collect by plunder.
• n. (colloquial) The act of prowling.

footle

• v. To waste time; to trifle.
• v. To talk nonsense.
• n. nonsense; foolishness.

lallygag

• n. Horseplay, fooling around.
• n. A layabout, one who lallygags.
• v. (See lollygag.) To dawdle; to be lazy or idle; to avoid necessary work or effort.
• v. (archaic, US) To pet, kiss, or otherwise demonstrate overt affection, generally in public.

linger

• v. (intransitive) To stay or remain in a place or situation, especially as if unwilling to depart or not…
• v. (intransitive) To remain alive or existent although still proceeding toward death or extinction; to die…
• v. (intransitive, often followed by on) To consider or contemplate for a period of time; to engage in analytic…

loaf

• n. (also loaf of bread) A block of bread after baking.
• n. Any solid block of food, such as meat or sugar.
• n. (Cockney rhyming slang) Shortened from "loaf of bread", the brain or the head (mainly in the phrase use…
• n. A solid block of soap, from which standard bars are cut.
• v. (intransitive) To do nothing, to be idle.
• v. (Cockney rhyming slang) To headbutt, (from loaf of bread).

loiter

• v. To stand about without any aim or purpose; to stand about idly; to linger; to hang around.

lollygag

• v. (US) To dawdle; to be lazy or idle; to avoid necessary work or effort.
• n. (US) Silliness, nonsense.

lounge

• n. A waiting room in an office, airport etc.
• n. A domestic living room.
• n. An establishment, similar to a bar, that serves alcohol and often plays background music or shows television.
• n. A large comfortable seat for two or three people or more, a sofa or couch; also called lounge chair.
• n. The act of one who lounges; idle reclining.
• v. To relax; to spend time lazily; to stand, sit, or recline, in an indolent manner.

lurch

• n. A sudden or unsteady movement.
• v. To make such a sudden, unsteady movement.
• v. (obsolete) To swallow or eat greedily; to devour; hence, to swallow up.
• n. An old game played with dice and counters; a variety of the game of tables.
• n. A double score in cribbage for the winner when his/her adversary has been left in the lurch.
• v. (obsolete) To leave someone in the lurch; to cheat.
• v. (obsolete) To steal; to rob.

lurk

• v. To remain concealed in order to ambush.
• v. To remain unobserved.
• v. To hang out or wait around a location, preferably without drawing attention to oneself.
• v. (Internet) To view an internet forum without posting comments.
• n. The act of lurking.

tarry

• v. (intransitive) To delay; to be late or tardy in beginning or doing anything.
• v. (intransitive) To linger in expectation of something or until something is done or happens.
• v. (intransitive) To abide, stay or wait somewhere, especially if longer than planned.
• v. (intransitive) To stay somewhere temporarily; to sojourn.
• v. (transitive) To wait for; to stay or stop for; to allow to linger.
• n. A sojourn.
• adj. Resembling tar.
• adj. Covered with tar.

walk

• v. (intransitive) To move on the feet by alternately setting each foot (or pair or group of feet, in the…
• v. (intransitive, colloquial, law) To "walk free", i.e. to win, or avoid, a criminal court case, particularly…
• v. (intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) Of an object, to go missing or be stolen.
• v. (intransitive, cricket, of a batsman) To walk off the field, as if given out, after the fielding side…
• v. (transitive) To travel (a distance) by walking.
• v. (transitive) To take for a walk or accompany on a walk.
• v. (transitive, baseball) To allow a batter to reach base by pitching four balls.
• v. (transitive) To move something by shifting between two positions, as if it were walking.
• v. (transitive) To full; to beat cloth to give it the consistency of felt.
• v. (transitive) To traverse by walking (or analogous gradual movement).
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) To leave, resign.
• v. (transitive) To push (a vehicle) alongside oneself as one walks.
• v. To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct oneself.
• v. To be stirring; to be abroad; to go restlessly about; said of things or persons expected to remain quiet,…
• v. (obsolete) To be in motion; to act; to move.
• v. (transitive, historical) To put, keep, or train (a puppy) in a walk, or training area for dogfighting.
• v. (transitive, informal, hotel) To move a guest to another hotel if their confirmed reservation is not available…
• n. A trip made by walking.
• n. A distance walked.
• n. (sports) An Olympic Games track event requiring that the heel of the leading foot touch the ground before…
• n. A manner of walking; a person's style of walking.
• n. A path, sidewalk/pavement or other maintained place on which to walk. Compare trail.
• n. (poker) A situation where all players fold to the big blind, as their first action (instead of calling…
• n. (baseball) An award of first base to a batter following four balls being thrown by the pitcher; known…
• n. In coffee, coconut, and other plantations, the space between them.
• n. (historical) A place for keeping and training puppies for dogfighting.
• n. (historical) An enclosed area in which a gamecock is confined to prepare him for fighting.
• n. (graph theory) A sequence of alternating vertices and edges, where each edge's endpoints are the preceding…
• n. (colloquial) Something very easily accomplished; a walk in the park.

walking

• v. present participle of walk.
• n. gerund of walk.
• adj. Incarnate as a human; living.
• adj. Able to walk in spite of injury or sickness.
• adj. Characterized by or suitable for walking.