云游 (yúnyóu): to roam / wander (typically of…

Meanings

1 to roam / wander (typically of an itinerant monk or priest)
2 (modern) to travel virtually / sightsee online

Characters

云

to wander / to travel

Examples

传说这位老和尚一生云游四海,居无定所。

Chuánshuō zhè wèi lǎo héshang yìshēng yúnyóu sìhǎi, jū wú dìng suǒ.

Legend has it the old monk wandered the land all his life, never settling in one place.

疫情期间大家都在家云游故宫。

Yìqíng qījiān dàjiā dōu zàijiā yúnyóu Gùgōng.

During the pandemic everyone toured the Forbidden City virtually from home.

Tips

culture

The classical sense describes Buddhist/Daoist 云游僧 (itinerant monks) who travel 'as free as clouds' to visit masters and sacred sites — the metaphor being that a cloud has no fixed home. The modern 云 (cloud-) prefix generates COVID-era neologisms like 云旅游, 云办公, 云逛街 where 云 means 'virtual / online'.