ambling

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It is something between pacing and ambling, a motion so easy that one scarce rises at all from the saddle.

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  1. intransitive verb To walk slowly or leisurely; stroll.
  2. intransitive verb To move along at an easy gait by using both legs on one side alternately with both on the other. Used of a horse.
  3. noun An unhurried or leisurely walk.
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  • She moved on, ambling, hands in pockets, smelling the night air fragrant from the exotic specimens in the botanical garden, and when she reached the Uganda Skytours plane there was no one at all in sight. —  Kahawa
  • Office people were ambling, noshing butties, drinking tins of fizz. —  dummy 3
  • "[T] hough it features wonderfully un-self-conscious actors cheerfully ambling through comic vignettes, it's not (entirely) just another kids-in-Brooklyn-apartments movie," writes —  GreenCine Daily
  • I saw Scott Baker ambling bleary-eyed down Austin Avenue on this windy afternoon, and I caught up with him. —  wacotrib - Latest News Headlines
  • Unless I'm ambling in on a late-night drunken stupor, I really don't care if the burritos are as big as my head! —  Hungry Magazine
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