monkey around

“If talking to you was all I had to do, I might monkey around here all summer,” he said.

And I suppose you can, for you always liked to monkey around with words.

It'll be a kind of hint for you not to monkey around after other fellows' wives.

If Hebe was on the job, hed eat a fellow up who tried to monkey around the gym.

However badly we may do it, patriotism demands that we monkey around with a garden of our own.