Possible Clues:

• Sleeper, weary, regularly finding freedom
• Road under river offering freedom of movement
• General method to establish latitude
• Play in general on the street
• Room to manoeuvre, as for ship
• This gives one room to go off course with the twister back there
• Stayed without reversing - very little room for manoeuvre here
• General method to get elbowroom
• Room for free movement
• Room in sheltered passage