free-roaming
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.50 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Allowing the player to move freely through a virtual world or choose the game narrative and objectives at will; an open world.
adj
Having the ability to move about unconstrained by reins, leashes, fences, cages, barns, and so on.
adj
Not orbiting a gravitational center.
Example Sentences
- "While Metroid introduced multiple endings to a linear game, other more recent designs have presented free-roaming worlds incorporating multiple gameplay paths."
- "Let the player trigger these in any order she chooses; this is vital because the game ceases being static and takes on the illusion of a free-roaming game."
- "Its free-roaming world was a departure for both the programmer and for console gamers, and in retrospect it was an ambitious undertaking that could have all gone horribly wrong."
- "From the distance of today, my guess is that it was the free-roaming horses that had most to do with the increase in carnivores, mainly because nobody was trying to protect them."
- "Further, the chickens are free-roaming, which means that it is necessary for the farmers to closely watch what the birds ingest."
- "As indicated in the Introduction, free-roaming dogs have "always" been a feature of New Providence's environment and they have "always" been considered a "nuisance" or "problem.""
Inflected Forms
more free-roaming (comparative)
most free-roaming (superlative)