Peripatetic

ˌperɪpəˈtetɪk

adjective

relating to or engaged in walking or traveling from place to place

The word 'peripatetic' comes from the Greek word 'peripatētikos,' which means walking up and down. It was originally used to describe the followers of Aristotle who walked about during philosophical discussions in the Lyceum in Ancient Greece.

"I'm talking about cruel fate in eight yards of apricot silk and more metal pound for pound than a galley slave and the sole owner and proprietor of the unchallenged peripatetic john of the late Confederacy."

William Faulkner

The Sound and the Fury

It was a peripatetic embracement.

Aldous Huxley

Crome Yellow

To inaugurate a series of static, semistatic and peripatetic intellectual dialogues, places the residence of both speakers (if both speakers were resident in the same place) the Ship hotel and tavern, 6 Lower Abbey street ( W. and E. Connery, proprietors), the National Library of Ireland, 10 Kildare street, the National Maternity Hospital, 29, 30 and 31 Holles street, a public garden, the vicinity of a place of worship, a conjunction of two or more public thoroughfares, the point of bisection of a right line drawn between their residences (if both speakers were resident in different places).

James Joyce

Ulysses

After the peripatetic lunch-hour we went off to see the fall of "south post."

T. E. Lawrence

Seven Pillars of Wisdom

The Judicial Assistant's court was peripatetic.

Mahatma Gandhi

The Story of My Experiments with Truth

Somewhere in the many moves of the peripatetic slum, they had mislaid their powers of retention, so that now they had become incapable of judgment, having forgotten everything to which they could compare anything that happened.

Salman Rushdie

Midnight's Children: A Novel

Schultz omits "brother," and says that this Severus is probably Claudius Severus, a peripatetic.

Marcus Aurelius

Meditations