bat around

:  a stout solid stick :  club

:  a sharp blow :  stroke

:  a usually wooden implement used for hitting the ball in various games

:  to strike or hit with or as if with a bat

:  to advance (a base runner) by batting

:  to have a batting average of

:  any of a widely distributed order (Chiroptera) of nocturnal usually frugivorous or insectivorous flying mammals that have wings formed from four elongated digits of the forelimb covered by a cutaneous membrane and that have adequate visual capabilities but often rely on echolocation

:  to wink especially in surprise or emotion

:  flutter

:  in a circle or in circumference

:  in, along, or through a circuit

:  on all or various sides :  in every or any direction

:  on all sides of

:  so as to encircle or enclose

:  so as to avoid or get past :  on or to another side of

:  about

:  being in existence, evidence, or circulation