Synonyms of hacking (around)

hacking (around)

verb

present participle of hack (around)

as in hanging (around or out)

to spend time doing nothing

would prefer to be put to work rather than spend his days at the ranch just hacking around

Synonyms & Similar Words

• hanging (around or out)
• goofing (off)
• killing time
• vegging out
• kicking back
• hanging about
• lounging
• fiddling (around)
• kicking around
• chilling
• resting
• puttering (around)
• idling
• pottering (around)
• twiddling one's thumbs
• relaxing
• loafing
• bumming
• playing
• strolling
• lazing
• lazying
• dawdling
• poking
• droning
• footling
• dillydallying
• lolling
• mucking
• messing
• lingering
• dallying
• estivating
• fooling
• monkeying
• trifling
• piddling
• hibernating
• aestivating
• dozing
• loitering
• lagging
• sauntering
• ambling
• moseying
• malingering
• truanting
• swanning
• goldbricking
• tarrying
• furloughing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• working
• buckling (down)
• laboring
• grinding
• plowing
• sweating
• plugging
• toiling
• grubbing
• plodding
• hustling
• slaving
• humping
• pegging
• applying
• putting out
• drudging
• moiling
• travailing
• exerting