sprawl around

sprawl around

To recline in a lazy, spread-out position or posture around some place or area. I'm sick of you kids just sprawling around. Go outside and play a game or something! My weeks are so busy and stressful that all I want to do on the weekend is sprawl around the house.
See also: around, sprawl
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • get (someone) around the table
  • get around the table
  • gaze around
  • bomb around
  • find way around
  • build around
  • build around (someone or something)
  • gaze around at (someone or something)
  • ferry (someone) around
  • ferry around
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The acceleration brute was given coming from its massive 4.0-liter V6 engine, but what we like was the spacious cabin which provided enough room to sprawl around while filming our music video.
Representatives of this terrorist group sprawl around the world, including the regions close to Russia and Indonesia," Lavrov said, shortly after holding talks with his Indonesian counterpart Retno Marsudi in Jakarta.
The Grade II listed home has been through many improvements during the centuries, and now comes with a wood-fired boiler system, photovoltaic electricity cells and solar hot water panels to make the home as eco-friendly as possible - so you can feel less guilty as you sprawl around in your mansion.
This corner of the island, bordering the undeveloped Akamas peninsula, is prettier and less in-your-face than the sprawl around Paphos.
The outlying suburbs sprawl around the wider harbour shores, the extent of which can be fully appreciated from the Mount Wellington viewpoint, a short drive west of the city.
Finally, FPIF contributor Alec Dubro uses Google Earth to uncover a driving factor often overlooked in Israel's controversial settlements in the occupied territories: urban sprawl around Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.
You can sprawl around and turn over as much as you like.
of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff) examines suburban sprawl around the Arizona city in terms of the rational society, cultural productions of space and time, selling and consuming The American Dream, and rights wars and developing a land ethic.
If you look carefully you can see the sprawl around Dublin, Limerick, Cork, Galway and Belfast...
Suburban sprawl around military training areas shows no signs of slowing and this growth is fueling tensions between base commanders and communities around the United States.
If urban sprawl around Toronto is not contained, more than 1,000 square kilometres of agricultural land will be converted to urban use by 2031, according to a 2001 study.
``But they certainly aren't sitting at their desks all day,'' says Angela, who taught physical science in the state sector as well as Shrewsbury public school,before giving up to have a family.``If we are doing something like reading or listening to music we sprawl around in armchairs.''
It's a place where you crash out and decadently eat croissants on a Saturday morning, where you sprawl around with the papers on a lazy Sunday afternoon.
Fruh-Green and her colleagues estimate there's enough virgin rock beneath the vent system to fuel suburban sprawl around the Lost City for hundreds of thousands of years to come.
International topics include environmental health in disadvantaged countries, how the public participates in environmental decisions in other nations, urban growth and sprawl around the world, global climate change and human rights and the environment.