Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1.
strolling or walking around;
- Example: "perambulating nursemaids with their charges"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Perambulate \Per*am"bu*late\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Perambulated; p. pr. & vb. n. Perambulating.] [L.
perambulatus, p. p. of perambulare to perambulate; per
through + ambulare to walk. See Per-, and Amble.]
To walk through or over; especially, to travel over for the
purpose of surveying or examining; to inspect by traversing;
specifically, to inspect officially the boundaries of, as of
a town or parish, by walking over the whole line.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
perambulating \perambulating\ adj. [pr. p. of perambulate
(definition 2).]
Strolling or walking around; as, in the field we met some
perambulating veterans.
[WordNet 1.5]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
perambulating
adj 1: strolling or walking around; "perambulating nursemaids
with their charges"