bounce around

phrasal verb

bounced around; bouncing around; bounces around

informal

: to talk about (something, such as an idea) in an informal way in order to get different opinions about it

We were bouncing some ideas around for the design of the book's cover.

They bounced around some plot ideas for a new play.

Examples of bounce around in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Both markets bounced around the room on volumes that were well above their 1-year averages. —Brendan Ahern, Forbes.com, 26 June 2025

If Mario is about bouncing around on legs, Donkey Kong is about fists. —Jordan Minor, PC Magazine, 18 June 2025

Rob Wood, chief U.K. economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, said his team expect inflation to bounce around the current inflation rates for the rest of the year for a 3.4% average. —Holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 18 June 2025

If gravity is indeed a collective effect of qubits, the Newtonian force law represents a statistical average, and the moment-by-moment effect will bounce around that average. —George Musser, Quanta Magazine, 13 June 2025

Rhymes for bounce around

• abound
• aground
• astound
• background
• campground
• clothbound
• confound
• earthbound
• eastbound
• expound
• fairground
• foreground