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1. Move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
   "the wandering Jew";
   - roll, swan, stray, tramp, roam, cast, ramble, rove, range, drift, vagabond
    
2. Be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage
   "Might her husband be wandering?";
   - cheat on, cheat, cuckold, betray
    
3. Go via an indirect route or at no set pace
   "After dinner, we wandered into town"
    
4. To move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course
   "sometimes, the gout wanders through the entire body";
   - weave, wind[2], thread, meander
    
5. Lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking
   "her mind wanders";
   - digress, stray, divagate

1. The activity of wandering around
   - rove

Derived forms: wandered, wandering, wanders

Type of: continue, cozen, deceive, delude, go, go forward, lead on, locomote, move, proceed, tell, travel

Encyclopedia: Wander