What's the difference between stroll and toddle?

Stroll


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To wander on foot; to ramble idly or leisurely; to rove.
  • (n.) A wandering on foot; an idle and leisurely walk; a ramble.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) George Clooney has strolled into one of the most bitter and longest-running controversies in the heritage world, saying it would be "very nice" if the British Museum sent the Parthenon Marbles back to Greece.
  • (2) For Manchester United this was a Saturday stroll that ended frantically, although the Premier League leaders' latest three points were made even sweeter by the return of their captain, Nemanja Vidic.
  • (3) Strolling around the perfectly formed FH training facility he laughs at the idea of one of these public spaces popping up in Britain.
  • (4) Just a short stroll from the start of this walk, the Norman Lockyer Observatory still holds two of his telescopes.
  • (5) I see a small group strolling along, a tall, handsome man at the centre.
  • (6) Around 100,000 Syrians live in Izmir, where until a few weeks ago when the EU-Turkey deal was put into effect, smugglers would stroll openly through the central square in the quarter of Basmane.
  • (7) The teams stroll out, Ivory Coast in their orange kit, Zambia wearing green tracksuit tops.
  • (8) Jason Puncheon is a lovely, careful passer of the ball and here he out-Cesc’ed Chelsea’s own midfield creator for long periods of the game, strolling about to great effect in his central playmaker role.
  • (9) Distance 1 mile (1.6km) Classification Gentle stroll Duration 1 hour 45 minutes Begins Salcombe Hill car park OS grid reference SY197889 Walk in a nutshell A mostly flat circuit around the summit of Salcombe Hill, which offers impressive views over the town of Sidmouth and, on a good day, as far as Portland Bill in Dorset.
  • (10) Not least when PSG aren’t just walking it in Ligue 1, they’re strolling, flaneur ing their way to another room-temperature domestic title, with seven league goals conceded away from home all season, territory and possession dominated each week.
  • (11) For a foodie reward, stroll to Rue Didot's row of boulangeries.
  • (12) I joined the Mayfair tour one Sunday afternoon, and for two and a half hours we strolled around looking at the offices of all the hedge funds and investment companies in the area.
  • (13) #rangers #kings #stanleycup June 12, 2014 2.56am BST Kings 1-2 Rangers, 4:22, 2nd period Williams sets up Stroll and he shoots wide of the net.
  • (14) Sometime after take-off, however, Pope Francis strolled to the back of the aircraft and gave them their answer.
  • (15) Those wanting to experience the concept of “shared space” and “naked streets” can stroll absentmindedly round any small town in Italy.
  • (16) Thankfully I only live a 10 minute stroll away from my office in central Bucharest.
  • (17) Brandon Belt stikes out, and then Gregor Blanco strolls to the plate.
  • (18) He strolls up, halts and strokes it into the bottom-right corner.
  • (19) Despite the lenses pressed against the glass, Yang Guang (his name means Sunshine) strolled around, his shoulders and hind quarters adopting the rolling gait of a prize fighter.
  • (20) A short stroll from Walker’s Point, where the ancestral estate of the Bush dynasty juts out commandingly into the Atlantic ocean, there is a political campaign slogan in urgent need of fresh clarification.

Toddle


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To walk with short, tottering steps, as a child.
  • (n.) A toddling walk.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) So off he toddled with his bindle-stick to play at running away, taking refuge at Sally's house.
  • (2) Being a toddler, she toddled a bit; she knocked over a bottle of Dettol spray, and in a staggering act of pre-school vandalism, broke the nozzle.
  • (3) Thank you, thank you,” he says, then dictates into my tape recorder: “‘You’re a fuckin’ star,’ she says walking by, an attractive young woman in burgundy jeans.” Is there a danger that he’ll lead the masses up the hill, then toddle off to Hollywood and give up on the revolution?
  • (4) Already, my toddling cousins – the people we call "digital natives" today – would pose in front of my phone and make clicking sounds: smart enough to understand what phones should be able to do; stupid enough that they could not see mine was not fit for purpose.
  • (5) She was just standing by the big sash window in her bedroom when she spotted Mrs Thatcher "toddling" around the hospital gardens unguarded.
  • (6) At the Christmas family gathering that year, Grandfather deemed any and all children present who were old enough to walk instead of toddle therefore old enough to sing a carol, recite a poem, and drink a cup of kindness made with brandy, cinnamon, and apples.
  • (7) Updated at 5.50pm BST 5.39pm BST Amid lots of yelping and squealing by idlers on the side of the road, the riders toddle around Versailles.
  • (8) The brands bang on as though they are philanthropists rather than brands seeking to lock down kids as consumers as soon as they can toddle to the pretend bank.
  • (9) Led by her exasperated mother, she toddles in coughing and spluttering helplessly into the doctor’s face.
  • (10) Despite its subject, the short story is funny and thought-provoking, based on the real event when Mantel actually spotted Thatcher "toddling" around the hospital gardens of the Windsor flat she lived in.
  • (11) Like an anxious parent unwilling to trust the house to a teenage son, Italy coach Cesare Prandelli has told Mario Balotelli that he can't risk leaving him behind when he toddles off to the World Cup.
  • (12) She's going to walk along the line with her thank you and bye-bye, then toddle round the side, duck into a limo and she's away.
  • (13) Manager news now and filling Steve McClaren’s shoes at Newcastle will be Rafa Benítez , who’ll keep the Magpies up before toddling off in the summer and paving the way for either David Moyes or Brendan Rodgers (or maybe even both) to take up the reins.
  • (14) The child, rescued from the trafficker, is now toddling around outside the house in just a nappy.
  • (15) Sure, Oxford mathematicians could toddle off to Barclays Capital.
  • (16) 9.18pm GMT 75 min: Neuer has to toddle out of his box against to reach a short back pass.
  • (17) Mitt Romney's merry world tour toddles on today with a visit to Poland.