What is another word for GADS?

Pronunciation: [ɡˈadz] (IPA)

Gads is a colloquial term that means "to go about aimlessly or gad around." Some synonyms for gads include meander, roam, wander, saunter, and stroll. These words evoke a leisurely and aimless pace associated with taking a stroll or walk. Other synonyms for gads are travel, journey, explore, and adventure, which suggest a more deliberate or purposeful movement, with a focus on discovering new places and experiences. In contrast, words like dawdle, loiter, and linger suggest a slower pace and a lack of urgency or purpose in the movement. Regardless of the synonyms used, gads remain a popular way to describe a casual and carefree wandering.

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What are the hypernyms for Gads?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Gads

With springalds, stanes, and GADS of airn, Amang them fast he threw; Till mony of the Englishmen About the wall he slew.
"Minstrelsy of the Scottish border (3rd ed) (1 of 3)"
Walter Scott
Herding a bunch of green and timid and nervous and contrary youngsters past all the temptations and pitfalls and confidence games and blarneyfests put up by a dozen frats, and landing the bunch in a crowd that it had never heard of two weeks before, is as bad as trying to herd a bunch of whales into a fishpond with nothing but hot air for GADS.
"At Good Old Siwash"
George Fitch
We see him, on occasion of the robbery at GADS-Hill, in the very act of running away from the Prince and Poins; and we behold him, on another of more honourable obligation, in open day light, in battle, and acting in his profession as a Soldier, escaping from Douglas even out of the world as it were; counterfeiting death, and deserting his very existence; and we find him, on the former occasion, betrayed into those lies and braggadocioes which are the usual concomitants of Cowardice in Military men, and pretenders to valour.
"Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare"
D. Nichol Smith

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