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peripatetic

adjective as in constantly traveling

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He played for the Bills from 2009-2012, making Buffalo one of nine stops the peripatetic quarterback has made in his 17-year career.

He showed his aptitude for it in sequences like the peripatetic swing-dance number from 1941, and the glittery Busby Berkeley-style opener of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.

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Even through the countless moves of my peripatetic 20s, when I crisscrossed New England with a mattress strapped to my car roof, I always had a splashing bowl squeezed between my thighs, its jittery occupant beating its fins in the rocking water.

Born into poverty, he led a peripatetic life, which included a stint in the circus.

Instead, knowing that Saudi law will force her to give up Hanadi to Muneer when she turns 7, Saeedah absconds with her daughter, embarking on a peripatetic life of deception that will haunt the three members of this small, fractured family.

Meanwhile, Al-Liby's family lived a peripatetic existence that included spells in Sudan and Qatar.

Still, Brandolini is influenced by her background and her peripatetic youth.

Jace Lacob talked to the peripatetic actress about her many TV roles.

Kim Richards is the most peripatetic of the bunch, and has moved twice since shooting The Real Housewives.

His parents were divorced, he had a peripatetic childhood, and a brother and sister both died in car accidents.

In our time there flourished at that place remarkable persons of the Peripatetic sect of philosophers, Athenæus and Xenarchus.

He used to walk about when teaching and from this circumstance his sect was called (p. 056) Peripatetic.

There was in fact an "eternal fitness" in horse and man that was not exactly a "standing joke," but a peripatetic one.

There were the Italian peripatetic vendors of weather-glasses, who had their headquarters at Norwich.

He passed for a peripatetic storehouse of anecdotes, specially crammed with old and worn-out officers stories.

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On this page you'll find 32 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to peripatetic, such as: itinerant, nomadic, roving, migrant, mobile, and vagabond.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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