fooling
/ˈfulɪŋ/
noun
- The act of behaving in a silly or playful way; joking or teasing.
- There was a lot of good-natured fooling at the party.
- The teacher told the students to cut out the fooling.
- Stop your fooling and get back to work.
Antonyms
verb
- To behave in a silly or playful way; to joke or mess around.
- Stop fooling and pay attention to the instructions.
- They spent the afternoon fooling at the beach.
- The kids were fooling around in the backyard.
- To trick or deceive someone.
- You can't fool me with that old excuse.
- The magician was fooling the audience with clever tricks.
- He tried fooling his sister with a fake spider.