whiling away
Leisurely spending hours
Whiling away is passing time in a leisurely or idle manner, often with some pleasant but undemanding activity: whiling away the afternoon with a book, whiling away the hours until her flight.
The phrase suggests time spent agreeably rather than productively—not wasted exactly, but not put to serious purpose either.
- lazingResting without aim
- idlingOperating without working
- loungingReclining in idleness
- doing nothingAbsence of activity
- leisureFree time for relaxation
passing time · daydreaming · lost in thought · dawdling · twiddling thumbs · pottering · recreation · pastime · frittering · meandering · drifting · idle · tarrying · wistfulness · whittling · loitering · people watching · birdwatching
- idle timekilling time, passing time, wasting time, doing nothing, dawdling
- idlenessdoing nothing, idling, loafing, lounging, lazing
- Leisurely Pastimeslounging, relaxing, resting, lazing, idling
whiling awaytoiling
Working strenuously, exhaustingly
laboring · productive labor · grinding · hustling · accomplishing
whiling awayrushing
Rapid forward movement
hurrying · seizing the day · beating the clock · cramming · carpe diem