doodling, fiddling (around), fooling around, fribbling, hanging about(British), kicking around, messing around, monkeying (around), playing, pottering (around), puttering (around), trifling

dallying, dawdling, dillydallying, hanging (around or out), idling, loafing, lolling, loungingclowning (around), horsing arounddiddling (with), tinkering

buckling (down), knuckling down, setting (to), settling (down)