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amble

1 4.5

A slow relaxed walk, often in a park or garden

noun
/ˈæmbl/

: paseo

The next two snapshots were taken during my amble along Maggie's Run.
a leisurely amble

Examples

After dinner, we enjoyed a pleasant amble through the park, admiring the sunset.
On warm weekends, families often go for an amble along the riverbank.
These days I usually walk from my apartment in Greenwich Village up to midtown on the East Side to eat, an amble about three miles long.

Academic text (1990)
After school, I curried Skylark's flanks until my mother was ready for our amble along a stony road at the side of a hayfield.

Fiction book (1996)
She decided to take a leisurely amble through the flower garden to relax.

Synonyms

stroll

vsamble

82 1.2

A slow easy walk taken for pleasure

is similar but stresses relaxed manner rather than location

promenade

vsamble

2 5.0

A slow walk for pleasure in a public place

is used for a plain relaxed walk without the idea of display

ramble

vsamble

2 4.6

A walk in the countryside for pleasure with no fixed route

is a relaxed public-place walk rather than aimless countryside wandering

perambulation

vsamble

Archaic

1 9.9

A slow, relaxed walk in a public place like a park

is the common word used in everyday speech for the same action

saunter

vsamble

1 6.4

A slow relaxed walk that someone takes for pleasure

is the more neutral commonly used word for public relaxed walking

How Leisurely

to saunter

18 5.5

amble

1 4.5

to walk

∞ 1.0

march

59 1.8

Surface Forms

amble singular

ambles plural

Etymology

The word amble comes from the Latin ambulare, meaning 'to walk', and has the same root as ambulance, a word about moving people. So an amble is a slow, relaxed walk for pleasure.