"idling around" is correct and can be used in written English.
It means to spend time doing nothing productive or useful. Example: She spent the whole afternoon idling around the house, watching TV and scrolling through social media.
"They want to earn more instead of idling around," he said, adding that the workers, mostly from elsewhere in China, did not have their families with them -- a common practice in the country -- and had little else to do.
Here you see people cycling blithely along, or hurtling past in juggernauts, or idling around the J-streets in summer, the signs completely overlooked.
Even when they were at home, they would never have been idling around in their nightclothes at eleven in the morning; they would have been at work for hours already, in the kitchen or turning out the lodgers' rooms, with their sleeves rolled up and coarse aprons tied over their clothes.
"We can barely earn enough to feed ourselves, much less the horses and camels," said Mr. Abu Ghaneima, pointing out the articulated rib cages and jutting hip bones of animals idling around a pretty little green square in his village, a stone's throw from the Sphinx.
They knew that the community needed a place that offered valuable services that they could use instead of idling around.
From what I "knew" about the playwright Terence Rattigan (ie that his characters idled around on chaises longues waving cigarette holders at each another), the last thing I expected from The Rattigan Enigma was to find him in a Lancaster bomber being gunned down by the Germans.
Bad feelings polluted my tired mind as I idled around doing nothing.
And if we surrendered our attachments to peace, love and being chill, why would any rich, white tourist ever want to come and idle around on our beautiful, gated beach resorts?
The S&P 500 idled around yesterday's close of 1363 before falling off between 3 00 PM EST and the close.
The street art movement hadn't reached southern soil yet, and the population of Atlanta idled around a comfortable two million, establishing Atlanta as a medium-sized city.
And while the details of the proposed compromise haven't been worked out, and fresh problems could always bring back the protesters in sunflower suits, community gardeners are already looking forward to the day when they don't have to worry about a bulldozer idling just around the corner.
