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roll around

roll around verb: to move about on the ground while rotating and turning one's body.

Verb

roll around (third-person singular simple present rolls around, present participle rolling around, simple past and past participle rolled around)

  1. (intransitive) To move about on the ground while rotating and turning one's body.
    • Pigs like to roll around in the mud.
  2. (intransitive) To be considered, without much coherence, in someone's mind.
    • I'm going to write a book because I've got all these crazy ideas rolling around in my head.
  3. (intransitive, slang) To indulge in sexual intercourse (with).
    • I know a girl who's fun to roll around with, but can't have a conversation.
  4. (colloquial, intransitive) To laugh very heartily.
    Synonyms:
    roll about
  5. (intransitive) Of a time or event: to come up; to happen.
    • By the time Friday rolls around, I'm ready for the weekend.
    • Sequels to fish-out-of-water comedies make progressively less sense the longer a series continues. By the time Crocodile Dundee In Los Angeles rolled around in 2001, 15 years after the first Crocodile Dundee became a surprise blockbuster, the title character had been given an awfully long time to...2012 May 24, Nathan Rabin, “Film: Reviews: Men In Black 3”, in The Onion AV Club

roll around meaning in Tamil and Marathi

roll around in Tamil

to roll around
உருள் uruḷ

roll around in Marathi

to roll around, wallow
लोळणे loḷṇe

Synonyms of roll around

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Forms of roll around

third-person singular presentrolls around
present participlerolling around
past participlerolled around
pastrolled around

Questions about roll around

What does roll around mean?
Roll around means to move about on the ground while rotating and turning one's body.
What is roll around in Tamil?
Roll around in Tamil is உருள் (uruḷ). See Roll around meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is roll around?
Roll around is a verb.
What is the past tense of roll around?
The past tense of roll around is rolled around.

Words near roll around in the dictionary

  1. Rolison
  2. Rolisons
  3. rolitetracycline
  4. roll
  5. roll about
  6. roll around
  7. roll away
  8. roll back
  9. roll back the years
  10. roll bar
  11. roll bars

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Adapted from Wiktionary: roll around (page history and authors); உருள் (Tamil) (page history and authors); लोळणे (Marathi) (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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