Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To go for a leisurely walk: stroll in the park.
- v. To travel from place to place seeking work or gain.
- v. To walk along or through at a leisurely pace: stroll the beach.
- n. A leisurely walk.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To saunter from point to point on foot; walk leisurely as inclination directs; ramble, especially for some particular purpose or aim.
- To rove from place to place; go about deviously as chance or opportunity offers; roam; wander; tramp: used especially of persons who lead a roaming life in search of occupation or subsistence.
- To turn in different directions; veer or glance about; rove, as the eyes.
- Synonyms and Saunter, Wander, etc. See ramble, v.
- n. A wandering along or about; a leisurely walk; a saunter.
- n. A stroller.
- n. A narrow strip of land.
Wiktionary
- n. A wandering on foot; an idle and leisurely walk; a ramble.
- v. To wander on foot; to ramble idly or leisurely; to rove.
- v. To go somewhere with ease.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To wander on foot; to ramble idly or leisurely; to rove.
- n. A wandering on foot; an idle and leisurely walk; a ramble.
WordNet 3.0
- v. walk leisurely and with no apparent aim
- n. a leisurely walk (usually in some public place)
Etymologies
- Probably German dialectal strollen, variant of strolchen, from Strolch, fortuneteller, vagabond, perhaps from Italian dialectal strolegh, from Italian astròlogo, astrologer, fortuneteller, from Latin astrologus, astronomer, astrologer, from Greek astrologos; see astrology. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“His Internet chat was held on the same day as online calls for Chinese to take to the streets for what is described as a stroll to protest soaring inflation and one-party rule.”
Voice of America: China Lowers Growth Forecast to Curb Inflation, Pollution
“And here he found a man, evidently on a stroll from the summer hotel down at the little town a mile away.”
“People living in the town can stroll from the movie theater to restaurants and then back home.”
“A short stroll from the Montessori school and one street over from the big Victorian house with the pool where they give lessons to all the neighbourhood kids.”
“There are now ample teachers and he agrees that to take the food away from tables so teachers can have pleasant morning stroll is farcical.”
“Old Mazatlán's main beach, called Olas Altas, rings a cove only a short stroll from the museums.”
“I just watched tony Bourdain stroll around Paris on TV last night ... my dear S had to contend with my frequent sighs of Michèle lives there.”
“Somehow the Berghof remnants survived, a mere five-minute stroll from the InterContinental.”
“Sports Illustrated once described him as "a guy who is on a stroll from the Gap to the library.”
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“The Governor's Palace is a short stroll from the Cathedral.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘stroll’.
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LIT - Ulysses - key words and phrases
money cowrie, bedraggle, omphalos, ineluctable, postprandial, bladderwrack, modality barnacle..., loofah, shipworm, cither, embattle, Malachi and 503 more...
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movement (slow)
words describing slow action or movement
( open list, randomness, descriptive )
related:
http://www.wordnik.co...creep, crawl, plod, slouch, idle, lumber, tiptoe, bend, amble, mosey, saunter, loiter and 117 more...
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Redundancing
The Moves. Do~do~ditty!
tango, bolero, cha cha, foxtrot, foxtantino, hip hop, hustle, jive, merengue, two step, paso doble, quickstep and 219 more...
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MUSIC - ALL TERMS
With focus on non-classical styles, but not excluding terms of the latter.
banjo, accompaniment, acoustic bass, bass guitar, bass clef, ground, brass, cornet, Mute, alto saxophone, baritone saxophone, arrangement and 866 more...
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Perambulatory
let's move
dawdle, hie, lollop, promenade, stroll, amble, mosey, gallivant, waddle, galumph, traipse, galumph and 3 more...
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Banned verbs for the Christmas shoppi...
In the interests of purposefulness…
wander, stroll, meander, drift, amble, roam, swarm, straggle, mill, ramble, stray, hover and 2 more...
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I am : moving
Words to describe gait and movement.
walk, run, trot, jog, canter, gallop, skip, crawl, slink, slither, amble, trundle and 69 more...
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Baby, Work Out!
Names of popular or once dances.
hully gully, slauson, twist, jitterbug, stroll, pony, mashed potato, swim, jerk, watusi, boogaloo, worm and 54 more...
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Test words
vacation, tourist, tourist office, travel, read, newspaper, book, magazine, television, music, radio, nightclub and 68 more...
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Things from my memory
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ChortleGiggleSnort
Significant Words- Guiding you on your path to Snazzibility
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BuffaloBen's Words
sycamore, wipfel, rohlingsspindel, gorgeous, flamboyance, anschmiegen, pengpeng, zuckerhut, revolver, troubleshooter, breeze, dandy and 228 more...
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strangelyrouge's Words
glockenspiel, gewgaw, jetsam, flotsam, gripe, grab, wench, whilst, betwixt, hither, thither, yonder and 1034 more...
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gargoyle, ennui, paradigm, aardvark, verisimilitude, ghoti, tenacity, nescience, guillemet, squonk, maven, moxie and 210 more...
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Words I have to learn
exasperate, felony, weld, fraud, worksheet, ransom, rehearse, preliminary, offshore, parole, infamous, sieve and 436 more...
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GRE AWA
escalating, vehement, vehemence, hostility, paparazzi, regime, irrespective, scoop, exaggerated, overblown, unfetter, scrupulous and 272 more...
Tweets
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treeseed The Stroll was a popular line dance in the 1950s. It was first performed to "C. C. Rider" by Chuck Willis on American Bandstand. Link Wray's "Rumble" and "The Stroll" by The Diamonds were also popular tunes for doing the Stroll. All these songs are slow 12-bar blues.
In the dance, two lines of dancers, men on one side and women on the other, face each other, moving in place to the music. Each paired couple then steps out and does a more elabarate dance up and down between the rows of dancers.
Music: "Stroll" Diamonds, "C.C. Rider" Chuck Willis, "Walking to New Orleans" Fats Domino
Type: Contra lines
Level: Beginner
Choreographer: Unknown
Counts: Basic: 12, center walk: 6
BPM: 120
A hip update of the old Virginia Reel, the Stroll features dancers forming tight contra lines, creating a lane down the middle wide enough to allow two to stroll down the aisle. Popularized through exposure on the daily American Bandstand program in late 1957, the Stroll stands as one of the few nationally-popular line dances of the 50s and 60s, rivaled in prominence only by the earlier Bunny Hop and the subsequent Hully Gully.
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See also the Slauson
Feb 24, 2008