ramble

A leisurely stroll; a recreational walk in the countryside.

Marianne was prevailed upon to join her sisters in their usual walk, instead of wandering away by herself. Hitherto she had carefully avoided every companion in her rambles. If her sisters intended to walk on the downs, she directly stole away towards the lanes;[…]

The place was a favourite with all, and the ramble in this quarter was quite a regular custom of the afternoon with the fair heiress of Colonel Walton in particular.

A rambling; an instance of someone talking at length without direction.

A bed of shale over the seam of coal.

A section of woodland suitable for leisurely walking.

Someone proposed that we play in one of the small clearings in a gay crusing ^([sic]) area in Central Park called the rambles.

To move about aimlessly, or on a winding course.

To walk for pleasure; to amble or saunter.

To lead the life of a vagabond or itinerant; to move about with no fixed place of address.

1994, Richard Thompson, “Beeswing” We was drinking more in those days and tempers reached a pitch And like a fool I let her run with the rambling itch

To talk or write incessantly, unclearly, or incoherently, with many digressions.

Francine has a tendency to ramble when it gets to be late in the evening.

She often rambles about bees' behavior, both in the hive and in the field.

To follow a winding path or course.

The river rambled through the mountains.