Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun loafing

1 sense of loafing

Sense 1
idleness, idling, loafing -- (having no employment)
       => inactivity -- (being inactive; being less active)

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

2 senses of loaf

Sense 1
bum, bum around, bum about, arse around, arse about, fuck off, loaf, frig around, waste one's time, lounge around, loll, loll around, lounge about -- (be lazy or idle; "Her son is just bumming around all day")
       => idle, laze, slug, stagnate -- (be idle; exist in a changeless situation; "The old man sat and stagnated on his porch"; "He slugged in bed all morning")

Sense 2
loiter, lounge, footle, lollygag, loaf, lallygag, hang around, mess about, tarry, linger, lurk, mill about, mill around -- (be about; "The high school students like to loiter in the Central Square"; "Who is this man that is hanging around the department?")
       => be -- (have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun); "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer")