walking the streets
Pounding the pavement
Walking the streets usually means wandering on foot without a particular destination, often with connotations of idleness, homelessness, or desperation: After losing his job, he spent months walking the streets.
The phrase is also a euphemism for prostitution—soliciting customers in public: She'd been walking the streets since she was sixteen.
- ambulateTo walk about
- pounding the pavementSearching for employment actively
- ambleRelaxed, slow gait
- strollRelaxed walk for enjoyment
- solicitingActively seeking responses
saunter · locomotion · wandering · nightwalker · red light district · anonymity · meandering · public spaces · foot traffic · mosey · resilience · survival · freedom · community · trekking · striding · exposure · pacing
walking the streetsdriving
Controlling a vehicle
riding · cycling · flying · horseback riding · motoring
walking the streetsstaying home
Not going out
staying put · sheltering in place · sheltering · couch potato
walks, walked, walker, walkers, walkway, walkways, street, streets, streetwise