KICK AROUND Synonyms: 208 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 of kick around The group didn’t know much at all about golf course development, turning to Google and ChatGPT to figure out the footprint of an average golf course, and kicking around ideas amongst themselves about who to call about design and architecture. —

Erik Matuszewski, Forbes.com, 28 Jan. 2026 One of the things that have been kicked around is a one-time 5% tax on billionaires. —

Nicole Nixon, Sacbee.com, 6 Jan. 2026 As the college football season winds down, Penn State is still operating with an interim head coach after the dismissal of James Franklin, and Roethlisberger kicked around the idea of Tomlin heading to Happy Valley to take over that program. —

Patrick Damp, CBS News, 3 Dec. 2025 In order to reach the mark that sports media watchers have been kicking around since the CBS Thanksgiving Day matchup was announced in May, the audience for the marquee holiday slot would have to be improve on the NFL’s all-time record by a whopping 19%. —

Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 26 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for kick around

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His statement was debated on the airwaves and online, and covered in outlets ranging from TMZ to The Hill, a website ostensibly devoted to Beltway politics.

— Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2026
The movie stars participated in a Variety & CNN town hall last week in which the pair debated how the pacing of movies and streaming series appeals to different generations who consume media on a wide range of mediums.

— Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 7 Mar. 2026