to splash around
4
2.9
- phrasal verb
- /splæʃ əˈraʊnd/
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- I'm out there on my boogie board, splashing around in the shallows, you know.
- splashing around in the pool
- splashing around in the water
- Kids can splash around
Sounds like a duck splashing around next to a boat that's just running.
- Sounds like a duck splashing around next to a boat that's just running.
Examples
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Below me, a crowd of women, children, and pot-bellied men were splashing around in the surf.
Fiction book (1999) -
You want to be the one in the fountain, especially if you know how enjoyable it is to splash around in there.
Blog text (1) -
You splash around in here.
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Maybe you are in the mood to go to a water park and splash around.
Academic text (2005) -
The couple from the lousy restaurant is sitting out by the pool while their daughters splash around in the water.
Fiction book (1991) -
I had high expectations of fun bath times with the little man splashing around and playing.
Blog text (12) -
Everybody was too busy diving, splashing around, and dunking one another to notice me.
Fiction book (1991) -
Every day at sunrise, he's out in the pool, splashing around in the shallow end to wake himself up.
Fiction book (1995) -
He splashes around in the shallows, just as he did this morning.
Fiction book (1994) -
Below me, a crowd of women, children, and pot-bellied men were splashing around in the surf.
Synonyms
91
1.0
To make liquid move so it hits things and makes noise
22
3.7
To move liquid so it splashes or to walk through water making splashing sounds
7
2.5
To play or move in shallow water by splashing
3
5.9
To make liquid move and spill around inside a container
1
4.8
To move a hand, foot, or bird's head lightly in water for fun
1
3.2
To play or wade in small pools of water
To move through water and make a loud wet sound
To move or splash with force and noise
Antonyms
How Energetic
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to play by moving about energetically in water and causing water to fly about' is directly derivable from combining 'splash' (to force liquid to scatter) with 'around' (moving about). This verb + particle composition is a straightforward, cross-linguistically common pattern, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will readily understand the MWE.
Etymology
Splash around comes from the image of someone moving or jumping in water so the water flies up. The word splash is the flying water and around shows moving in different directions, so the phrase means 'to play by moving about in water'.