Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive and intransitive idiomatic English) To drive or jaunt about, going from place to place without any specific direction or goal. 2 (context idiomatic English) To spend one's time idly.
WordNet
Usage examples of "tool around".
We ought to just tool around, see some local sights, wind up at Palolo or the project for a picnic and a swim.
In turn she took a desperate chance, swinging the tool around, aiming for the rock ahead of him.
Until she had gotten too old to drive, she had continued to tool around Whitman in the 1965 Lincoln Continental, which was the last vehicle her husband had purchased, from Whitman's Patterson Lincoln-Mercury, before his untimely death.
And since Disney movies of this period also have a thing for strange flying events, Mom doesn't tool around in an airborne VW or Model T, but instead takes a terrifying but ultimately triumphant hang-glide above her husband's PR event.
Ribs on fire, he can't roll over, so he lies where he is, watching blood cells tool around on his retina like bumper cars at the fair.
Weinstein waved a sterilization tool around the wound and additional abrasions farther up his chest.
He thinks assassins and terrorists tool around in sports cars, and if you asked him what kind of motor Death would drive, (after you'd told him a hearse was too literal) he'd probably describe the vehicle of his ultimate fantasies, styled, of course, in black.
Some guys tool around in space yachts, some play the rocket races-maybe the old boy gets his splats out by throwing five scragoonchies into a slot and pulling the handle.
God Almighty luckily had a small spaceship on the grounds of the asylum and offered to take my informant on a short tool around the Solar System –.
They were the best tool around for surreptitious photography, and for photographing documents.
Nemerov set out late at night in this big old gold Lincoln he used to tool around in, never came home.
Until she had gotten too old to drive, she had continued to tool around Whitman in the 1965 Lincoln Continental, which was the last vehicle her husband had purchased, from Whitman’.