Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of fool around English)
Usage examples of "fooling around".
It ain't going to get you nowhere fooling around with Lov like you was doing, because you can't get him that way.
If it doesn't, or if you start fooling around behind my back, there's not going to be any place far enough away for you to hide.
She knew Id been fooling around with an idea for a crime novel, although I couldn't seem to get a handle on it.
Longarm said he didn't think it was too late for that kid to be out fooling around, and asked her to tell them more about the spooky medicine man.
He was watching Long Tom, who was fooling around his television receiver.
Anyway, it's not like I'm thinking about sex with him all the time, or even the fooling around part, but then something happens and we're just, you know, doing it again.
It isnt that he was fooling around, but that Id already told him to stop and he disobeyed me.
Jonnie had found that out when he was fooling around wrestling with one of their engineers.