perambulation

• To assert the extent of your land, you might hold a ceremony called a "perambulation," in which you would walk around and record the boundaries of your property in the presence of witnesses. —  Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day
• The waltzers clear four or five ever-shifting rings for themselves, in each of which a dozen to twenty couples go round and round, colliding, jostling and (righteously enough) eliminating the vagrant do-nothings who in aimless perambulation are for ever trenching upon the dancers' ground. —  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873
• A few minutes more were spent in perambulation, when he threw himself into the chair I think, my young acquaintance, you appear to be interested for these relations of mine; or at least for one of them I certainly am, sir; and so is every one who is acquainted with her Well, I am glad to hear that there is one good out of the three. —  Newton Forster The Merchant Service
• Boundary stones, dated May 4, 1837, are to be seen in the thickets of Buckland Woods, Devon, showing that Ascension Day was chosen in that year for the perambulation of Ashburton. —  The Prayer Book Explained
• For nearly an hour he continued his perambulation, his hands clasped behind him as though absorbed in deep thought. —  That Mainwaring Affair

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