KICK AROUND Synonyms: 209 Similar and Opposite Words

kick around

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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

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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

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as in to kill time

to spend time doing nothing spent the afternoon kicking around, while his wife bought out the mall

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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

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as in to abuse

to inflict physical or emotional harm upon children who were raised by an alcoholic father who regularly kicked them around

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Recent Examples on the Web Just weeks before the convention begins Aug. 19 in Chicago, politicians and rank-and-file Democrats are kicking around all sorts of possibilities. —

Dan Horn, The Enquirer, 22 July 2024 As Democrats nationally are reconsidering whether to renominate President Joe Biden for a second term, one name being kicked around as a possible replacement somewhere on the ticket is Arizona’s U.S. Sen. Mark Kelly. —

Ronald J. Hansen, The Arizona Republic, 20 July 2024 In other words, these ideas have been kicking around for a while. —

Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 18 July 2024 Biden not pushing expanding the Supreme Court One hot-button proposal that has long been kicked around is not on Biden's agenda, according to the reports: expanding the size of the nine-member Supreme Court, which many liberals have long supported. —

Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 17 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for kick around

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