Synonyms of kicks around

kicks around

verb

present tense third-person singular of kick around

1

as in debates

to give serious and careful thought to

the board spent the afternoon kicking around the feasibility of opening an overseas office

Synonyms & Similar Words

• debates
• contemplates
• entertains
• ponders
• considers
• studies
• eyes
• questions
• looks at
• weighs
• wrestles (with)
• thinks (about or over)
• explores
• mulls (over)
• perpends
• chews on
• chews over
• pores (over)
• reviews
• analyzes
• ruminates
• meditates
• deliberates
• revolves
• cogitates
• reflects (on or upon)
• cudgels one's brains (about)
• beats one's brains out (about)
• turns
• muses (upon)
• digests
• broods (about or over)
• obsesses (about or over)
• reminisces
• frets (about or over)
• speculates (about)
• dwells (on or upon)
• reasons
• fixates (on or upon)
• believes
• concludes
• drinks (in)
• opines
• absorbs
• conceives
• second-guesses
• assimilates

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• ignores
• disregards
• overlooks
• rejects
• slights
• dismisses
• poohs
• pooh-poohs

2

as in plays

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• plays
• fiddles (around)
• fools around
• goofs (around)
• putters (around)
• fribbles
• hangs about
• potters (around)
• messes around
• monkeys (around)
• hangs (around or out)
• doodles
• trifles
• horses around
• lounges
• clowns (around)
• idles
• loafs
• dawdles
• dillydallies
• lolls
• tinkers
• dallies
• diddles (with)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• sets (to)
• settles (down)
• buckles (down)
• knuckles down

3

as in hangs (around or out)

to spend time doing nothing

spent the afternoon kicking around, while his wife bought out the mall

Synonyms & Similar Words

• hangs (around or out)
• kicks back
• kills time
• hacks (around)
• goofs (off)
• hangs about
• rests
• lounges
• plays
• dillydallies
• bums
• chills
• lazes
• footles
• strolls
• relaxes
• loafs
• veges out
• lazies
• idles
• dawdles
• twiddles one's thumbs
• pokes
• fiddles (around)
• drones
• vegges out
• putters (around)
• potters (around)
• messes
• mucks
• lingers
• lolls
• aestivates
• dallies
• estivates
• fools
• monkeys
• hibernates
• lags
• piddles
• loiters
• saunters
• goldbricks
• trifles
• dozes
• ambles
• moseys
• swans
• tarries
• malingers
• furloughs
• truants

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• slaves
• works
• plows
• labors
• toils
• plugs
• pegs
• grinds
• hustles
• humps
• plods
• sweats
• buckles (down)
• applies
• grubs
• moils
• puts out
• travails
• drudges
• exerts

4

as in roams

to move about from place to place aimlessly

after spending a year in Europe kicking around, the backpacker was ready to return home

Synonyms & Similar Words

• roams
• wanders
• knocks (about)
• drifts
• strolls
• cruises
• floats
• galavants
• ranges
• meanders
• gads (about)
• traipses
• roves
• rambles
• maunders
• bats
• gallivants
• saunters
• mills (about or around)
• mooches
• ambles
• dawdles
• gypsies
• vagabonds
• mopes
• straggles
• strays
• tramps
• hobos

5

as in abuses

to inflict physical or emotional harm upon

children who were raised by an alcoholic father who regularly kicked them around

Synonyms & Similar Words

• abuses
• takes apart
• bullies
• messes over
• tortures
• ill-treats
• ill-uses
• violates
• mistreats
• misuses
• injures
• brutalizes
• hurts
• manhandles
• works (over)
• oppresses
• maltreats
• mishandles
• beats (up)
• persecutes
• torments
• harms
• outrages
• harasses
• molests
• victimizes
• roughs (up)
• wrongs
• sandbags
• messes (up)
• burns

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• cares (for)
• fosters
• cherishes
• nurtures
• caters (to)
• babies
• favors
• indulges
• spoils
• gratifies
• pampers
• humors
• mollycoddles
• coddles