play around

Idioms  

1. Act playfully or irresponsibly, especially in having a casual or extramarital sexual relationship. For example, She got tired of his playing around and filed for divorce. [1920s]

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Example Sentences

"You can start playing around with the much larger code. It's like adding one more letter to the alphabet."

From Science Daily

I tell my kids, play around, try things out.

From The Wall Street Journal

"We are two men of 80 years of age, so we cannot play around with democracy," he said.

From Barron's

Through playing around I landed on my recipe for scrunched mochi crêpes.

From The Wall Street Journal

And she advises her to play around with online retirement-planning tools to stress-test scenarios such as a job loss, health events and living to 100.

From The Wall Street Journal