vagabond

Adjective

• continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another
  • a drifting double-dealer
    
  • the floating population
    
  • vagrant hippies of the sixties
    

• wandering aimlessly without ties to a place or community
  • led a vagabond life
    
  • a rootless wanderer
    

Noun

• a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support

• anything that resembles a vagabond in having no fixed place
  • pirate ships were vagabonds of the sea
    

Verb

• move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
  • The gypsies roamed the woods
    
  • roving vagabonds
    
  • the wandering Jew
    
  • The cattle roam across the prairie
    
  • the laborers drift from one town to the next
    
  • They rolled from town to town
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  aimless , drifting , floating , vagrant , rootless , drifter , floater