kid around

idiom

: to speak in a way that is not serious : to say things that are not true in a joking way

I'm not really angry—I'm just kidding around.

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Unsurprisingly, some folks couldn't help but kid around with Carrie after her reply. —

Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 1 June 2023 Unsurprisingly, some folks couldn't help but kid around with Carrie after her reply. —

Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 1 June 2023 While most would say heartfelt comments about their cast mates, Ken decided to kid around about the status of their camaraderie. —

Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 15 Feb. 2023 Jim Parsons and Ben Aldridge kid around ahead of a chat about their new movie Spoiler Alert at N.Y.C.'s 92NY. —

People Staff, Peoplemag, 12 Dec. 2022 Elon Musk may like to kid around on Twitter , but his impending ownership of the platform is no joke, to him or anyone else. —

Laura Forman, WSJ, 26 Apr. 2022 At Berkeley, students who were ostracized in their hometowns, often for being the only blind kid around, became part of a rich lineage, and a vast disability community. —

Isabella Cueto, STAT, 28 Mar. 2022 Keaton’s father, Joe, would toss the kid around the stage like a bowling ball. —

Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2022