"free-roaming" meaning in English

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Adjective

Forms: more free-roaming [comparative], most free-roaming [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj}} free-roaming (comparative more free-roaming, superlative most free-roaming)
  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. Categories (topical): Video games
    Sense id: en-free-roaming-en-adj-X2fEY-zN Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 22 34 12 32 Topics: video-games
  2. Having the ability to move about unconstrained by reins, leashes, fences, cages, barns, and so on.
    Sense id: en-free-roaming-en-adj-1gfZUTqC Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 22 34 12 32
  3. (astronomy) Not orbiting a gravitational center. Categories (topical): Astronomy
    Sense id: en-free-roaming-en-adj-aT0J6avm Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 22 34 12 32 Topics: astronomy, natural-sciences

Verb

Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} free-roaming
  1. present participle and gerund of free-roam Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: free-roam
    Sense id: en-free-roaming-en-verb-~eHcu-za Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 22 34 12 32

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