красться; ходить крадучись; рыскать; шнырять("He found a discarded wallet on one of those nights while they prowled the perimeter of the canyons" (J. Wambaugh, Lines and Shadows). — "В одну из таких ночей, когда они рыскали по периметру каньона, он нашёл брошенный бумажник" (Дж. Уамбо "Силуэты и тени").); шмонать(обыскивать • He prowled me over carefully. — Он тщательно обшмонал меня .)
крадучись(о движениях • Amazingly, Mitchell found the sight of the strange creature so intriguing that she bravely ventured outside her house to get a better look at the big cat and wound up observing it from just a few feet away. She later described the beast as being "longer than a Labrador dog but not as high," though she insisted that it was a feline as "its movement was low and prowling." (coasttocoastam.com)ART Vancouver); крадущийся(о движениях • Amazingly, Mitchell found the sight of the strange creature so intriguing that she bravely ventured outside her house to get a better look at the big cat and wound up observing it from just a few feet away. She later described the beast as being "longer than a Labrador dog but not as high," though she insisted that it was a feline as "its movement was low and prowling." (coasttocoastam.com)ART Vancouver)