bob around

1. 1.

   move up and down with no specific path

   “the cork bobbed around in the pool”

   Synonymsbob about

   Broaderbob

Questions about bob around

What does bob around mean?

bob around means "move up and down with no specific path".

What is another word for bob around?

Close synonyms include bob about. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bob around a common word?

bob around is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.