1. Having no fixed home; changing location regularly as required for work or food
   "wandering tribes";
   - mobile, nomadic, peregrine [archaic], roving
    
2. Turning irregularly, not going directly to the destination
   "the river followed its wandering course";
   - meandering, rambling, winding
    
3. Having no fixed course
   "his life followed a wandering course";
   - erratic, planetary

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

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

Derived forms: wanderings

See also: indirect, unsettled

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

Encyclopedia: Wandering, Western Australia