to lounge around
5
3.8
- phrasal verb
- /laʊndʒ əˈraʊnd/
- Informal
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- She loves to lounge around the garden with a good book on sunny afternoons.
- lounging around the pool
- lounging around the house
- lounge around all day
You know, in the first sessions, everyone's kind of lounging around and we're all playing like this.
- You know, in the first sessions, everyone's kind of lounging around and we're all playing like this.
- I love just like lounging around in pyjamas watching TV, watching all the films.
Examples
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I will occasionally skip a day if I'm just lounging around the house.
Blog text (17) -
- So you plan on just lounging around waiting for ideas?
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You can lounge around here on her sofa.
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When you wake up, don't lounge around in bed.
Blog text (30) -
Inside, Sonrisa's men are lounging around.
Fiction book (2000) -
Alex makes her way to the far corner of the cafeteria where a cluster of kids lounge around a table.
Fiction book (1993) -
We spent the rest of the afternoon lounging around the pool, greased and glistening, smelling of coconut oil, which attracted sweat bees.
Fiction book (1990) -
We see a half-dozen immaculately dressed hoods wearing diamond pinky rings and silk shirts, lounging around the cabstand, talking and sipping coffee.
Fiction book (1990) -
After a long week at work, I just want to lounge around all weekend and relax.
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On lazy Sundays, we often lounge around the house watching movies.
Synonyms
946
2.4
To spend time relaxing or talking with friends
888
1.5
Spend time without any activity
407
2.0
To stay in a place without doing anything important
350
1.1
To spend time sitting and doing very little without a clear purpose
223
4.0
To relax and do very little
111
4.1
To spend time doing playful or unplanned activities
43
3.7
To spend time doing nothing useful
14
9.1
To spend time relaxing with friends or alone without a plan
12
2.7
To sit or lie in a place and relax
7
4.3
To spend time relaxing and doing very little
7
6.2
To spend time doing little or nothing instead of working
5
7.0
To sit or lie in a lazy, relaxed way
5
6.5
To spend time doing small, not important tasks slowly without a clear plan
4
4.0
To relax comfortably and spend time lazily in a chair or on a sofa
3
5.9
To spend time somewhere doing nothing special
3
7.9
Spend time doing very little or nothing
3
4.4
To stay in a place without a clear reason
3
8.4
To spend time doing not important things in a relaxed way
2
7.7
To spend time doing nothing useful
2
8.6
To spend time doing very little and moving around without plans
2
9.5
To waste time instead of doing the work you need
1
9.2
To spend time doing small unimportant things instead of working
1
8.7
To waste time doing small unimportant things
1
3.4
To spend time lazily doing little or nothing
1
4.4
To spend time doing very little and relaxing
1
7.7
To spend time doing nothing and not working
1
6.5
To spend time doing nothing in a lazy way
1
6.5
To move around slowly doing small jobs in no hurry
1
9.9
To waste time doing silly or lazy things instead of useful work
1
9.9
To waste time instead of doing something useful
1
9.9
To waste time instead of doing something useful
To relax and spend time with friends or alone
To spend time doing small unimportant things with no real plan
Spend time or money on unimportant things
To spend time on things that are not useful
To relax and do almost nothing
To waste time on small unimportant things
To waste time instead of doing something useful
Move around without a plan to have fun
To travel slowly without a clear plan
To pass time by doing something not useful while you wait
Antonyms
How Lazy
- Informal
1
6.3
7
6.2
- Informal
5
3.8
7
4.3
- UK
1
6.5
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to spend time being lazy or idle' is directly derivable from 'lounge' (to sit/relax idly) combined with 'around' (about/aimlessly), so the composite denotes relaxing without purposeful activity. This verb + particle pattern is transparent and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily understand the expression.
Etymology
Lounge around comes from the simple picture of someone resting in a comfortable lounge and just drifting around the room without doing much. So, it means 'to spend time being lazy or idle'.