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:
She put up with a roaming husband in order to protect her child.
There are some people who are faithful and some who tend to roam.
She enjoys his company, but occasionally he lets his hands roam where they shouldn't.
She roamed around America for a year, working in bars and restaurants.
After the bars close, gangs of youths roam the city streets.
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:
That was the first of the vessels which have roamed the seas with nowhere to go.
He has roamed over the steel industry and the coal industry.
Bands of people roamed from place to place providing essential labour to farms and businesses, and they camped peacefully.
Up to now we have had a most interesting debate which has roamed far and wide.
He roamed the world and everything else had to give way to his desires.
He roamed at great length and breadth over the whole world, and he justly paid tribute to the efforts of our troops in action.
There were several days of rioting in which mobs roamed the streets breaking windows and burning cars.
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.
