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kidding around

kidding around is the present participle and gerund of kid around.

Meaning of kid around

Verb

kid around (third-person singular simple present kids around, present participle kidding around, simple past and past participle kidded around)

  1. (idiomatic, transitive) To engage in playful fun.
    • I think he was just kidding around when he said that, so don't take it personally.

Questions about kidding around

What is kidding around the present participle and gerund of?
Kidding around is the present participle and gerund of kid around.

Words near kidding around in the dictionary

  1. kiddified
  2. kiddily
  3. kiddin'
  4. kiddiness
  5. kidding
  6. kidding around
  7. kidding aside
  8. kidding on
  9. kidding on the square
  10. kiddingly
  11. kiddings

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Adapted from Wiktionary: kidding around (page history and authors); kid around (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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