English offers a fascinating variety of words for many activities and interests. Consider the wide range of meanings that can be expressed by the various words we have to describe walking, for example. We can say that a man is marching, pacing, patrolling, stalking, striding, treading, tramping, stepping out, prancing, strutting, prowling, plodding, strolling, shuffling, staggering, sidling, trudging, toddling, rambling, roaming, sauntering, meandering, lounging, loitering, or creeping.