1. Go via an indirect route or at no set pace
   "After dinner, we wandered into town"
    
2. Move about aimlessly or without any fixed destination
   "the wandering Jew";
   - roll, swan [informal], stray, tramp, roam, cast, ramble, rove, range, drift, vagabond [archaic]
    
3. 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
    
4. Depart from a main topic, theme, or purpose in speech or thought
   "her mind wanders";
   - digress, stray, divagate [rare], sidetrack
    
5. Be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage
   "Might her husband be wandering?";
   - cheat on, cheat, cuckold, betray

1. The activity of wandering around
   "They enjoyed a leisurely wander through the countryside";
   - rove

Derived forms: wandered, wanders, wandering

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

Encyclopedia: Wander, Karl Friedrich Wilhelm