roll around

present singular third person rolls around · participle present rolling around · participle past rolled around · past rolled around

1. intransitiveTo move about on the ground while rotating and turning one's body.

   Pigs like to roll around in the mud.

2. intransitiveTo 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. intransitiveslangTo indulge in sexual intercourse (with).

   I know a girl who's fun to roll around with, but can't have a conversation.

   Synonyms: bump nasties, have sex, tumble, approach, cohabit, common, company, copulate

4. colloquialintransitiveTo laugh very heartily.

   Synonyms: roll about

5. intransitiveOf a time or event: to come up; to happen.

   By the time Friday rolls around, I'm ready for the weekend.

   1 more example

   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 grow acclimated to those kooky Americans

   2012 May 24, Nathan Rabin, “Film: Reviews: Men In Black 3”, in The Onion AV Club, archived from the original on 14 Aug 2013