What are some opposite words for play around?
Antonyms for play aroundplay around
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play aroundverb
Synonyms:
fool aroundplay aroundverb
To behave in a silly, or childish, or irresponsible way.
Stop playing around, and get on with your homework.
Synonyms:
fool aroundplay aroundverb
To work with in a non-serious manner
You could build even more interesting components called amplifiers and begin playing around with amplifiers.
Synonyms:
fool aroundplay aroundverb
To engage in sexual practices outside of marriage.
Synonyms:
fool around
Princeton's WordNet
play around, fool aroundverb
commit adultery
"he plays around a lot"
Synonyms:
arse around, fool around, fool, horse around, dabble, smatterdabble, smatter, play aroundverb
work with in an amateurish manner
"She dabbles in astronomy"; "He plays around with investments but he never makes any money"
Synonyms:
fool around, splash around, babble, blether, smatter, blather, dabble, paddle, blither
How to use play around in a sentence?
Singing the anthem is the only thing that still makes me nervous, it doesn’t really matter how big the crowd is. It’s just the fact that you can’t play around with the lyrics on that one. If you mess it up, you’re on YouTube forever.
I wasn't going to play around with 'Mom dented the car and how are we going to keep Dad from finding out about it,'.
This is another point of negotiation between partners, one of them is just too exhausted. That might be something to play around with, is there a time on the weekend that we could try instead.
The semi-finals is a warm up also for photographers, i was free to play around and I thought I would try a motion blur ... I saw him running ... The moment he turned his head I thought the picture was ruined as it would be too shaky but it just happened ... and overnight it became 'the' picture.
I think something that is realistic is playing the tour one day, never full time, ever again, but pick and choose, just like Mr.( Ben) Hogan did, pick and choose a few events a year and you play around that. You practice around that, and you gear yourself up for that. And you play. I think that’s how I ’m going to have to play it from now on.
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