roll around

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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).

   Synonyms: bump nasties, have sex, tumble; see also Thesaurus:copulate

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

4. (intransitive, colloquial) To laugh very heartily.

   Synonym: 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.

   • 2012 May 24, Nathan Rabin, “Film: Reviews: Men In Black 3”, in The Onion AV Club‎^[1]:

     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