wander

move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment

• “The gypsies roamed the woods”
• “roving vagabonds”
• “the wandering Jew”
• “The cattle roam across the prairie”
• “the laborers drift from one town to the next”
• “They rolled from town to town”

be sexually unfaithful to one''s partner in marriage

• “She cheats on her husband”
• “Might her husband be wandering?”

go via an indirect route or at no set pace

• “After dinner, we wandered into town”

to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course

• “the river winds through the hills”
• “the path meanders through the vineyards”
• “sometimes, the gout wanders through the entire body”

lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking

• “She always digresses when telling a story”
• “her mind wanders”
• “Don”