traipse

Related to traipse: traipse around

traipse around

To spend time walking or traveling around (some place) in an aimless or carefree search of pleasure, enjoyment, or entertainment. I decided to spend the whole summer traipsing around Europe with my friend Tom. I had a few hours to kill before I had to catch my train, so I spent the time traipsing around.
See also: around, traipse

traipse in

1. To walk or hike in some place, especially in a meandering, lighthearted, or carefree manner. We always love to traipse in the woods behind our grandparents' house when we were kids. Make sure you are well prepared before you go traipsing in the mountains with your friends.
2. To arrive or enter (some place) in a careless, thoughtless, or flippant manner. We were all supposed to be in the office by 8, but it was nearly 11 before Tom came traipsing in. She traipsed in the door the next day as if nothing had happened the night before.
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traipse into (some place)

To arrive or enter into some place in a careless, thoughtless, or flippant manner. It was nearly 11 before Tom came traipsing into the office. She traipsed into the house the next day as if nothing had happened the night before.
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traipse over

To walk or travel over (to someone, something, or some place) in a careless, thoughtless, or flippant manner. The man traipsed over to our table and proceeded to lecture us on the history of the city. Don't just traipse over unannounced—call me ahead of time!
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

traipse around (some place)

to walk or travel around some place. I spent all afternoon traipsing around town looking for just the right gift for Roger. She has been traipsing around all day.
See also: around, traipse

traipse over

 and traipse in
to go or arrive carelessly or thoughtlessly. He traipsed over and invited himself in. She came traipsing in at about midnight.
See also: over, traipse
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • traipse around
  • spend (something) on (someone or something)
  • spend on
  • spend for
  • spend (something) for (something)
  • noodle around
  • rant and rave
  • rant and rave, to
  • rave
  • spend the rest of (one's) days
References in periodicals archive
At night these Connacht folk would traipse back to dark streets and dismal rooms shared with many others '' Each day they would rise early and tramp out to their labour in the fields.
Mr Goodwin said: "I understand the Government's difficulty when backbench MPs traipse in to see ministers and demand a review."
They are apt to disappear into damp, shady coves or traipse across sun-splashed ridges after a warm spring rain.
Anyone wanting a pint in a Paddock pub must now must traipse all the way down to The Ship at Paddock Foot.
Anybody shopping at the large Tesco or other major shops has to traipse all the way to Lord Street for their journey home with heavy bags of shopping!
He's forced to traipse around the world eating all his favourite foods, just to keep viewers at home enter-tained.
Nowhe's a respected elder statesman and world-weary traveller who's taken on the genteel mantle of the likes of Alan Whicker and Michael Palin to traipse around the globe in search of amazing places and people.
because it means he doesn't have to traipse half way around the world for the African Nations Cup.
News vans continue to roam the island, and I traipse from hotel to hotel, a pen clutched in my fist.
Although a number of eastern plant species seem to traipse up the Verdigris out of the western Ozarks, Acer saccharum isn't among the hitchhikers.
Last week, for example, the office at my local station was closed, which meant I had to traipse up the stairs at New Street and buy my through ticket to London.
I realise, of course, I've cursed myself saying that and I will now have to traipse down to the end of the lane to fish my letters out of a stream from here on in.
The kind of men who traipse about the shops helping their partner to choose blouses, when an important sporting event is on - disgraceful.
It's easier for us to travel on a bus to get to where the people who want to see us are, than for them to traipse around the country to come to see us.
"I traipse around charity shops and thrift stores for tat for her stall.