"clown about" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means to act silly or behave in a playful manner. It can be used in a variety of situations, such as joking around with friends or engaging in comedic antics. Example: "The children loved to clown about in the park, giggling and chasing each other in circles."
An example is "Imprisoned Clown" (about 1999) by Roxanne Swentzell of Santa Clara Pueblo, N.M.
Crush then engaged in a feud with Doink the Clown (Matt Osborne), after he was attacked with a loaded prosthetic arm while confronting the clown about his cruel pranks on children at ringside, which caused Crush to miss the 1993 Royal Rumble.
The remix of The Blacks doesn't just clown about with the existing story of racism.
There remains something of the class clown about Bacon, an enterprising reluctance – or inability – to recognise the wrong moment.
"Clown," about a folly kind of love, even has traces of Macy Gray, from the moment when Ms. Gray's slight blowziness was an asset, not a shtick.
Salman Rushdie, in his recent novel "Shalimar the Clown," about the history of Kashmir's multiple betrayals, imagines an American diplomat in Los Angeles who is invited to appear on a late-night talk show.
After clowning about on the football field & amusing everyone, the writer began to feel badly because he wasn't a real tiger like the ones they used to have at games in the twenties.
"Committing violence and trying to blame it on clowns... listen, clowns are about entertaining people and making people happy, and this is the antithesis of what we do".
Rolando Villazón brought 'Kleinzach' from Offenbach's Les contes d'Hoffmann: the wild imagination, the clowning about, the eyebrows, the works.
To "Someday My Prince Will Come," the dancers offer childlike shufflings and fake clowning about the stage, gripping each other's buttocks and generally being very, very naughty.
