Rove

But good AEneas, pondering through the night / distracting thoughts and many an anxious care, / resolved, when daybreak brought the gladsome light, / to search the coast, and back sure tidings bear, / what land was this, what habitants were there, / if man or beast, for, far as the eye could rove, / a wilderness the region seemed, and bare.

Sojourner, the size of a microwave oven, demonstrated in 1997 that a robot could rove on the Red Planet.

Now as I allowed my glance to rove along the dim-lighted hall in the direction of the two bed-chambers, it was at once arrested by some small—and at the distance, indistinguishable—object lying in the centre of the floor a few feet beyond the two doors.

Karl Rove says he is a very competitive guy. Admirers and detractors alike say the 55-year-old Texan is a skilled tactician in sizing-up and tearing-down political opponents.

And thou […] that with thy cruell dart / At that good knight so cunningly didst roue […]

Now that he was in his prime, there was no simian in all the mighty forest through which he roved that dared contest his right to rule, nor did the other and larger animals molest him.

And a rovin’, a rovin’, a rovin’ I'll go / For a pair of brown eyes

Roving the field, I chanced / A goodly tree far distant to behold.

The rein-deer, which in Scandinavia can scarcely exist to the south of the sixty-fifth parallel, descends, in consequence of the greater coldness of the climate, to the fiftieth degree, in Chinese Tartary, and often roves into a country of more southern latitude than any part of England.

Although both [flax and wool] must be roved and spun upon similar principles, each requires peculiar modifications in its machinery.