0 past simple and past participle of roam
1 to move about or travel, especially without a clear idea of what you are going to do:
After the bars close, gangs of youths roam the city streets.
She roamed around America for a year, working in bars and restaurants.
She enjoys his company, but occasionally he lets his hands roam where they shouldn't.
There are some people who are faithful and some who tend to roam.
She put up with a roaming husband in order to protect her child.
2 to connect to a mobile phone service that is not the one that you normally use, for example if you are in another country:
A punitive expedition of four thousand roamed the country murderously.
Exposure to animals that had diarrhoea and access of the child to areas in which the pets roamed were also not associated with illness.
Mobs of seven- to eight-thousand people roamed the land and manhandled the officials of the fiscal administration.
Chickens and goats roamed about in profusion.
Chords that had previously stalked his compositional landscape in packs, their raison d'être dependent upon familial relationships, now roamed as independent sonorities freed from collective responsibility.
Press gangs constantly roamed the pampa in search of recruits, and landowners were virtually powerless to impede the commandeering of their work-force.
Indeed, the boundaries of a "housewife" were not altogether clear; they extended to wherever she roamed and were not restricted to the space of her physical home.
Some carts were seized and others overturned and their loads scattered, and groups of women roamed the streets after dark to try to prevent clandestine deliveries.
