goof around

goof around

To engage in aimless recreation or frivolous time-wasting; to fool around. Quit goofing around and get back to work already! You'd probably have better grades if you didn't goof around so much in class.
See also: around, goof
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

goof around

to act silly. The kids were all goofing around, waiting for the bus. Stop goofing around!
See also: around, goof
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

goof around

v.
To act foolishly, playfully, or without a clear sense of purpose: The students who goofed around all semester failed the course.
See also: around, goof
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs.

goof around

verb
See goof off
See also: around, goof
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • futz around
  • get (someone) around the table
  • get around the table
  • find way around
  • around (one's) ears
  • bomb around
  • go around and around
References in periodicals archive
"E sa Pinoy, pabandying bandying, sigarilyo, kung saan saan." (But Filipinos goof around, they smoke, walk around) "Dito sa atin 'pag nandito tayo, ang tendency natin maging tamad (If we are here, we have the tendency to get lazy) but why is it that when we're abroad we transform into a very efficient working machine?
In one photo, Mavy and Cassy goof around as they pose for the camera, with Cassy giving her twin brother a piggyback ride.
With the licensed collectible set from the country's largest fast-food chain, kids will surely have lots of fun playing with the Looney Tunes fun squad as they goof around and chase each other around the house and in the backyard, just like in the animated series!
These attacks are useful as the pushback attacks throw the enemy quite far away which affords you a lot of space to goof around and give them a taunt.
With an approach to filming which is almost experimental - all oblique angles, brash colour and time-lapse photography - his restless camera hangs over their shoulders as locals hang out, goof around and jam in a variety of musical styles, including blues and rap.
With an approach to filming which is almost experimental - all oblique angles, brash colour and timelapse photography - his restless camera hangs over their shoulders as locals hang out, goof around and jam in a variety of musical styles, including blues and rap.
For a serious EDCgun, I wouldn't goof around and would change the battery out at least once a year and probably every 4-5 months.
Logan and his fellow vloggers goof around, play video games, share self-indulgent in-jokes with their friends - and they put it on YouTube, and that's vlogging, and it makes crazy money.
"But Crystal doesn't like to just goof around. She's very smart about figuring out things.
He wants nothing more than to play, goof around and make hilarious sounds!
But the proud dad is happy his sons don't see him as famous because it lets him goof around with them at home.
LAURA Junor had always been self-conscious about her teeth - and used to goof around in photos because she hated her smile.
Horton, 26, who took home Silver and Bronze Medals in Beijing 2008, said that they "goof around" at the Olympic Village.
She said: "It is easier because you can goof around more without feeling that the crew is getting annoyed.