The word 'walkabout' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to the Australian Aboriginal practice of going away from one's home for an extended period of time to travel through the land, and to refer to any event or excursion meant to explore or experience something new. For example: "We decided to go on a walkabout to explore the surrounding countryside."
Provoked by the moon, the roused spirit of the bush "The "horrid thing in the bush", from D.H. Lawrence's "Kangaroo" in 1923, has become familiar through Australian films, such as "Ned Kelly", "Walkabout" and "Picnic at Hanging Rock".
But he took umbrage at the suggestion that he was fixing the walkabout and began to approach random doors, where the reception was no less appreciative, with demands for selfies and invitations to come in for tea.
He was in the square for about 15 minutes in a relatively relaxed walkabout.
Ed Miliband was forced to abandon a walkabout in an Edinburgh shopping centre as pro-independence supporters drowned him out with cries of "serial murderer".
Wide-ranging policy and cultural differences between Nigel Farage and Douglas Carswell, which are likely to dog Ukip before the general election, were highlighted as the leaders of the insurgent political force embarked on a chaotic walkabout through Clacton-on-Sea.
"I have no difficulty with Britain as Britain is today," Carswell said after their mid-morning walkabout.
Carswell and Farage, some of whose allies describe their new MP as "tricky", put on a show of unity when the Ukip leader swept into the centre of Clacton in his black Range Rover, accompanied by his posse of security guards, for a brief walkabout.
Carswell also used his walkabout to quash speculation that he might use his position as Ukip's first elected MP to manoeuvre for its leadership.
Ed's proposal for an energy price freeze showed his heart was in the right place, even if "his head has gone walkabout".
In Robert Muirhead's spotlessly tidy home on the Hallglen estate outside Falkirk, the turned-down TV is churning through images of the latest walkabout by Alex Salmond, while we talk animatedly about what might happen on Thursday.
Mr Turner thinks expectations of rising rates are already built into the gold price; if they do not materialise as quickly as expected, there could even be a rally.In this section The 100-year view Fifteen years of hurt Deposits go walkabout The worst is yet to come Buried The calm before the tantrum That's it?
