Verb
Synonym of play around
(slang, African-American Vernacular) To trifle with or be frivolous concerning.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgI don't suppose that applies so much to other physicists; I think it's a peculiarity of myself that I like to play about with equations, just looking for beautiful mathematical relations which maybe don't have any physical meaning at all. Sometimes they do. Paul Dirac
I've played heavies for years and years and years. I was bald. I came to Hollywood. I did a play about junk. I was a pusher, so I played pushers for years and years and years. I did war movies and things like that. Gavin MacLeod
The glimmer continued to play about the vault of heaven. To the west one could see the roofs of nearby mansions and the tower of Our Lady's Church silhouetted against the dull red glow of embers in the darkness of the night. Halldór Laxness
Two things made The Dice of the Gods, another play about drugs, seem much better than it had any real right to seem. One was that Morphia had come first, and once you had seen Morphia, nothing seemd so very terrible to you. p. 375. Dorothy Parker
She had read a wonderful play about a man who scratched on the wall of his cell and she had felt that was true of life - one scratched on the wall. Virginia Woolf
I don't play pyrotechnic scales. I play about frustration, patience, anger. Music is an extension of my soul. Dick Dale