遛狗(liù gǒu) - to walk a dog in Mandarin

遛狗 (liù gǒu) means to walk a dog, taking it out for exercise. 遛 (liù) means to stroll, or to walk something at a leisurely pace, and 狗 (gǒu) is dog.

Note the tone: 遛 (liù) is fourth tone in this word, not the second tone that some machine-generated pinyin lists give it. It is easy to confuse with 溜 (liū), "to slip, to slide", because the characters look similar, but they are different characters with different meanings and different tones.

遛狗 (liù gǒu) is one of the most common daily-routine phrases in Mandarin, alongside 做饭 (zuò fàn, "to cook") and 打扫 (dǎ sǎo, "to clean"), so expect it in descriptions of an ordinary day.