The word "stroking" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe the act of running one's fingers or a hand along the surface of something in a gentle manner. For example, "She was stroking the soft fur of the puppy."
Stroking Dogs can get frustrated and stressed when they get bored and stroking them can help to calm them.
Two minutes later it was 2-0 as chaos in the home defence was seized upon by Arter, who had the simple task of stroking the ball past the exposed Henderson.
Cameron replied: "I promise there isn't someone stroking a white cat".
Constructing a film narrative, even a dumb one, is painstaking, expensive work, often involving high-priced special effects, or stroking the backs of known faces who can "open".
In the bible, Methuselah was the oldest man who ever lived, dying at the age of 969 just before Noah's flood – but in Canterbury he is a young man, looking slightly anxiously to one side and stroking his luxuriant curly beard.
There was no hint of the collapse to come when Cook was stroking 35 of the first 44 runs from only 46 balls after James Foster had won the toss and chosen to bat.
Not content with hand-stroking over dinner tables or inflicting your lustfulness on friends, family, innocent bystanders or fellow public-transport users, you come to the conclusion – seeing as it's the 21st century and all – that you should blog about it.
There's no chin-stroking over the relative value of "privacy makers " over "privacy takers".
Does his diversification into ego-stroking industries make business sense?
As might be expected of such an event, there was plenty of beard-stroking going on, both literally and metaphorically.
Still, that's an easier call made in hindsight, away from the ego-stroking period of courtship between both parties and without a seven-figure cheque being waved in your face.
