roam

Related to roam: dictionary, roam around

roam about

To move or wander in an aimless, ambling, unrestricted manner around (some place or area). Mr. Jackson is always roaming about the school after everyone else has gone home. I only had a day in London, so I just spent the time roaming about, trying to get a sense of the city. There have been reports of a bear roaming about the neighborhood, so be careful.
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roam around

To move or wander in an aimless, ambling, unrestricted manner around (some place or area). Mr. Jackson is always roaming around the school after everyone else has gone home. I only had a day in London, so I just spent the time roaming around, trying to get a sense of the city. There have been reports of a bear roaming around the neighborhood, so be careful.
See also: around, roam
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

roam about

 and roam around
to wander or range about freely. Stay where you are and don't roam about. I'm too tired to roam around very much.
See also: roam
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • roam about
  • roam around
  • poodle around
  • pootle around
  • go walkabout
  • wander into (some place)
  • move around
  • move around and move about
  • sail around
  • wander in
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CSG Roam allows the carrier to manage roaming relationships with its largest and most strategic partners by providing greater visibility, flexibility, and control of multiple roaming agreements to handle increasing consumer demand for access to real-time voice, data, and content.
Brazilian mobile carrier expands relationship with CSG Systems
"MSIQ's commitment to offering secure payment processing to small and emerging businesses, as well as enterprise customers, fits perfectly with what we're doing at ROAM Data," said Stu Fullerton Vice President of sales at ROAM Data.
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"We have already seen a number of initiatives, for example: Airtel offers free incoming calls and local prices of the visited country across its footprint in Africa; Vodacom's One Africa provides one low roaming rate on voice, SMS and data on its networks; and MTN (Nigeria and South Africa) recently launched Roam Like Home.
Connecting countries
3 customers will continue to roam on O2, the current provider of national roaming to 3, until the beginning of the transition phase in late 2006.
3 enters national roaming agreement with Orange
With these Wi-Fi roaming consortiums in place, users will be able to roam across the street, across town, or on the other side of the world.
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The service also opens up roaming services to users currently unable to roam with their mobile, helping to generate more revenue for operators.
Roamware unveils SMS solution to control mobile roaming costs
The roaming service, which started on March 15, allows Thuraya subscribers to roam seamlessly with their Thuraya XT-Dual handsets on AT&T's network.
UAE\\ s Thuraya inks roaming deal with AT&T