Synonyms of kick around

kick around

verb

1

as in to debate

to give serious and careful thought to

the board spent the afternoon kicking around the feasibility of opening an overseas office

Synonyms & Similar Words

• debate
• entertain
• contemplate
• consider
• ponder
• study
• question
• eye
• chew on
• think (about or over)
• explore
• look at
• weigh
• wrestle (with)
• mull (over)
• review
• chew over
• analyze
• pore (over)
• deliberate
• meditate
• perpend
• ruminate
• cogitate
• revolve
• beat one's brains out (about)
• turn
• muse (upon)
• cudgel one's brains (about)
• reflect (on or upon)
• digest
• speculate (about)
• dwell (on or upon)
• obsess (about or over)
• fixate (on or upon)
• drink (in)
• brood (about or over)
• reminisce
• believe
• fret (about or over)
• reason
• conclude
• conceive
• absorb
• opine
• assimilate
• second-guess

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• ignore
• slight
• disregard
• overlook
• reject
• dismiss
• pooh
• pooh-pooh

2

as in to play

to spend time in aimless activity

I really can't do much but kick around at work until I get the rest of the submissions

Synonyms & Similar Words

• play
• fool around
• goof (around)
• fiddle (around)
• hang about
• putter (around)
• mess around
• potter (around)
• monkey (around)
• doodle
• fribble
• trifle
• hang (around or out)
• lounge
• horse around
• idle
• clown (around)
• loaf
• dawdle
• diddle (with)
• loll
• tinker
• dillydally
• dally

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• set (to)
• settle (down)
• buckle (down)
• knuckle down

3

as in to kill time

to spend time doing nothing

spent the afternoon kicking around, while his wife bought out the mall

Synonyms & Similar Words

• kill time
• hang (around or out)
• kick back
• hack (around)
• veg out
• lazy
• goof (off)
• hang about
• lounge
• bum
• rest
• play
• relax
• chill
• idle
• stroll
• loaf
• footle
• laze
• poke
• dawdle
• drone
• twiddle one's thumbs
• dillydally
• fiddle (around)
• muck
• mess
• putter (around)
• loll
• potter (around)
• estivate
• linger
• dally
• fool
• monkey
• trifle
• aestivate
• piddle
• hibernate
• doze
• saunter
• loiter
• lag
• amble
• swan
• mosey
• tarry
• goldbrick
• malinger
• truant
• furlough

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• work
• slave
• labor
• plow
• plug
• grind
• toil
• hustle
• sweat
• apply
• buckle (down)
• plod
• put out
• hump
• grub
• peg
• travail
• exert
• drudge
• moil

4

as in to roam

to move about from place to place aimlessly

after spending a year in Europe kicking around, the backpacker was ready to return home

Synonyms & Similar Words

• roam
• wander
• drift
• knock (about)
• stroll
• cruise
• float
• range
• gad (about)
• meander
• rove
• traipse
• bat
• galavant
• gallivant
• mill (about or around)
• ramble
• saunter
• mooch
• amble
• maunder
• gypsy
• vagabond
• dawdle
• hobo
• mope
• stray
• straggle
• tramp

5

as in to abuse

to inflict physical or emotional harm upon

children who were raised by an alcoholic father who regularly kicked them around

Synonyms & Similar Words

• abuse
• take apart
• bully
• mess over
• torture
• misuse
• mistreat
• injure
• violate
• manhandle
• hurt
• oppress
• brutalize
• maltreat
• work (over)
• ill-use
• mishandle
• ill-treat
• persecute
• outrage
• harass
• beat (up)
• torment
• harm
• wrong
• molest
• rough (up)
• victimize
• burn
• mess (up)
• sandbag

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• care (for)
• foster
• cherish
• nurture
• baby
• cater (to)
• favor
• indulge
• gratify
• spoil
• humor
• pamper
• coddle
• mollycoddle

Examples of kick around in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Although Silverman’s play has been kicking around regional theaters for the last decade, the role of Sharon seems tailor-made for Farrow’s wry and genial presence. —Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 13 Sep. 2024

And then the minute that idea kicked around the table between all of us and all these writers and the text and actual science, that card went up on the bulletin board very quickly. —Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 30 Aug. 2024

Despite kicking around ideas for various post-high school jobs, ranging from working on a shrimp boat to becoming a welder, Chadwick says her cousin was ultimately leaning toward enlisting in the military. —Emily Palmer, Peoplemag, 27 July 2024

Early estimates kicking around the Hill suggest those provisions would massively outweigh possible increases in oil and gas production and exports. —Nick Sobczyk, Axios, 7 Aug. 2024