Free-roaming

Quick meaning: Free-roaming is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of free-roam.

Meaning

present participle and gerund of free-roam.

More Meanings

1. (video games) Allowing the player to move freely through a virtual world or choose the game narrative and objectives at will; an open world.
2. Having the ability to move about unconstrained by reins, leashes, fences, cages, barns, and so on.
3. (astronomy) Not orbiting a gravitational center.

Example Sentences

By 1985, there were nine free-roaming condors left on earth and a few more in zoos.

Further, the chickens are free-roaming, which means that it is necessary for the farmers to closely watch what the birds ingest.

Since free-roaming cats may come into the yard, any sandboxes should be covered when not in use to prevent cats from defecating in them.

Let the player trigger these in any order she chooses; this is vital because the game ceases being static and takes on the illusion of a free-roaming game.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include free-range, free-form, free-wheeling, freewheeling, free-running, free-flowing.

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