1. Having no fixed home; changing location regularly as required for work or food
   "a restless roving society";
   - mobile, nomadic, peregrine [archaic], wandering

1. Travelling about without any clear destination
   "she followed him in his rovings and looked after him";
   - wandering, vagabondage

1. Move about aimlessly or without any fixed destination
   "roving vagabonds";
   - roll, wander, swan [informal], stray, tramp, roam, cast, ramble, range, drift, vagabond [archaic]
    
2. Card or draw out wool or other fibers
   "The artisan roved the wool fibers before spinning them into yarn"

Derived forms: rovings

See also: unsettled

Type of: go, locomote, move, travel, traveling [US], travelling [Brit, Cdn]

Encyclopedia: Roving