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kicking back

verb , present participle of kick back

Synonyms and Antonyms of kicking back

1 to refrain from labor or exertion

I plan to spend the day kicking back and watching television

Synonyms of kicking back

basking, lolling, lounging, relaxing, reposing, resting

Words Related to kicking back

bumming, goldbricking, hanging, hanging about [British], hanging around, idling, loafing, slacking (off), vegging out

Near Antonyms of kicking back

drudging, grubbing, humping, hustling, laboring, moiling, pegging (away), plodding, plowing, plugging, slaving, slogging, straining, striving, struggling, sweating, toiling, travailing, working

exercising, working out

2 to spend time doing nothing

a good resort for people who want to kick back and watch others exercise strenuously

Synonyms of kicking back

bumming, chilling, dallying, dawdling, dillydallying, droning, footling, goofing (off), hacking (around), hanging about [British], hanging (around or out), idling, kicking around, lazing, lazying, loafing, lolling, lounging, vegging out

Words Related to kicking back

fiddling (around), fooling, messing, monkeying, mucking, piddling, playing, pottering (around), puttering (around), trifling

dozing, estivating (also aestivating), hibernating

lagging, lingering, loitering, poking, relaxing, resting, tarrying

ambling, moseying, sauntering, strolling, swanning

furloughing, goldbricking, malingering, truanting

Phrases Synonymous with kicking back

killing time, twiddling one's thumbs

Near Antonyms of kicking back

drudging, grinding, grubbing, humping, hustling, laboring, moiling, pegging, plodding, plowing, plugging, slaving, sweating, toiling, travailing, working

applying, buckling (down)

exerting, putting out

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