Synonyms and Antonyms of lounge
1
to refrain from labor or exertion
- the construction workers spent their break lounging in the shade behind the building
drudge, grub, hump, hustle, labor, moil, peg (away), plod, plow, plug, slave, slog, strain, strive, struggle, sweat, toil, travail, work
exercise, work out
2
to spend time doing nothing
- after putting in tons of overtime at the office, all we wanted to do on vacation was lounge around
bum, chill, dally, dawdle, dillydally, drone, footle, goof (off), hack (around), hang (around or out), hang about [British], idle, kick around, kick back, laze, lazy, loaf, loll, veg out
fiddle (around), fool, mess, monkey, muck, piddle, play, potter (around), putter (around), trifle
doze, estivate (also aestivate), hibernate
lag, linger, loiter, poke, relax, rest, tarry
amble, mosey, saunter, stroll, swan
furlough, goldbrick, malinger, truant
drudge, grind, grub, hump, hustle, labor, moil, peg, plod, plow, plug, slave, sweat, toil, travail, work
apply, buckle (down)
exert, put out
