Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb go_through_the_motions

1 sense of go through the motions

Sense 1
go through the motions -- (pretend to do something by acting as if one was really doing it; "She isn't really working--she's just going through the motions")
       => make, pretend, make believe -- (represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like; "She makes like an actress")