One who roves: a person or animal that travels around, especially over a wide area, without a fixed destination; a nomad, a roamer, a wanderer. • A restless, unsteady person who does not settle down; specifically (historical), a flirtatious, unfaithful man; a rake. • Also rover ticket: a person who has a ticket for an event, performance, etc., but no assigned seat, and so has to find a place to sit or stand. • A small manned or unmanned land vehicle for exploring extraterrestrial bodies. • A defensive back position whose coverage responsibilities are a combination of those of a cornerback, linebacker, and safety; also, a player playing this position. • Chiefly in the plural in the form to shoot at rovers: a target randomly selected by an archer, usually for practice; also, a fixed target for practising long-distance shooting. • A type of heavy arrow used for long-distance shooting. • A position that is one of three of a team's followers making up a ruck, who follow the ball around the ground; also, a player playing this position, who is generally fast and skilful at receiving the ball, and formerly of shorter stature. • In full rover ball: a ball which has passed through all the hoops and would peg out if it hit the stake but is continued in play to help fellow players or obstruct opposing players; also, the player of such a ball. • Alternative letter-case form of Rover (“an early type of safety bicycle with a lower riding position than previous models”). • A remotely operated underwater vehicle (ROUV) or remotely operated vehicle (ROV). • Alternative letter-case form of Rover (“Short for Land Rover (“a type of road vehicle capable of being driven off-road”)”). • The tenth defensive player in slow-pitch softball. • A forward whose responsibility was to feed the scrum and protect the scrum-half; the position was abandoned after a 1931 rule change. • Alternative letter-case form of Rover (“Short for Rover Scout (“a member of a Scouting organization for young men too old to be Boy Scouts”)”). • Especially in rover ticket: a type of pass, ticket, etc., that allows the holder unlimited travel on certain types of public transport for specified periods. • In full rover patrol: an airborne reconnaissance patrol.