云游

雲遊
yúnyóu
to wander (typically of an errant priest)

CEDICT

  1. (especially of a Buddhist monk or Taoist priest) to roam about aimlessly; to wander aimlessly
  2. to roam about aimlessly; to wander aimlessly

Wiktionary

行迹无定，任意遨游。多指僧、道、尼等的游历。唐．李公佐《谢小娥传》：「后数日，告我归牛头山，扁舟汎淮，云游南国，不复再遇。」《老残游记．第二○回》：「听说先生同青龙子长相往来，近来知道他云游何处吗？」也作「云游」。

重編國語辭典

Examples

所谓头脑好的人，就如同步伐轻快的云游者，他可以比别人捷足先登，到达人们尚未去过的地方，但是他可能会忽略掉路旁或岔道上的珍贵物品。

A person with a sharp mind is like a nimble wanderer who can outpace others and reach places uncharted by the masses, yet they might overlook precious treasures along the way or at crossroads.

Source: Tatoeba

Entry Composition

=1 云 yún (classical) to say
=1 云 yún cloud

classifier: 朵
=2 游 yóu
  1. to swim
  2. variant of 游 yóu
=2 游 yóu
  1. to walk
  2. to tour
  3. to roam
  4. to travel

Related entries

游移 yóuyí
  1. to wander
  2. to shift around
  3. to waver
  4. to vacillate
漫步 mànbù
  1. to wander
  2. to ramble
  3. recreational hiking
  4. to perambulate
那是 2025 年 4 月 26 日。下午兩點前，陽光明媚，萬里無雲。我來到我家附近的死胡同，靜靜地漫步。我欣賞著花園，這讓我想起了道家思想：人如何影射天：櫻花的簇簇花海，如同遠處的星雲。人其實不必走太遠。我的白人鄰居芭芭拉正站在她家車道上。她和丈夫肯恩正要出門去買雞蛋。他們家很愛吃雞蛋。

It's the 26th of April of 2025. Before 14:00, a sunny blue-sky afternoon, I went to my neighbourhood's cul-de-sac to meditatively walk around and around there. I admired the gardens. They reminded me of Daoism: how the microcosm reflects the macrocosm: The puffs of sakura would be a nebula afar. One need not really travel too far. Barb my white neighbour was at her driveway. She and her husband Ken would be going out to buy eggs. They eat many eggs.

Source: Tatoeba

游荡 yóudàng
  1. to wander
  2. to roam about
  3. to loaf about
  4. to be idle
但与此同时，它却在消逝：时间无可挽回地流逝， 而我们却四处游荡，成为我们对细节的热爱的囚徒。

But meanwhile it flees: time flees irretrievably, while we wander around, prisoners of our love of detail.

Source: Tatoeba

流浪 liúlàng
  1. to drift about
  2. to wander
  3. to roam
  4. nomadic
  5. homeless
  6. unsettled (e.g. population)
  7. vagrant
偏离 piānlí
  1. to deviate
  2. to diverge
  3. to wander
现代人已经偏离上帝和自然了。

Modern man has moved far away from God and from nature.

Source: Tatoeba

浮游 fúyóu
  1. to float
  2. to drift
  3. to wander
  4. variant of 蜉蝣 fúyóu
游移不定 yóuyíbùdìng
  1. to oscillate without pause (idiom)
  2. to fluctuate
  3. (of thoughts) to wander
  4. to waver
辗转 zhǎnzhuǎn
  1. to toss about in bed
  2. from person to person
  3. indirectly
  4. to wander