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[soidisantfille.livejournal.com]

Is there a way to say "hanging out" in Russian, as in spending time with your friends but not doing anything in particular?

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[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

Yes. "Тусоваться" (verb; the noun is тусовка.) At least it was so when I was a teenager, which took place quite a long time ago :)) It's a slang word though, not High Style :)

[mystache.livejournal.com]

does the noun mean the actual activity of being together (like scheduling a 'meeting' in english) or the place where you hang out?

[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

It means both the activity and the, er, crowd that hangs out, not the place. Тусовка is both the way to spend your time and a pack of people.

[kalaus.livejournal.com]

Тусоваться may not be a universal equivalent (a bit more colloquial, I think), but pretty close.

[rodmonga.livejournal.com]

"зависать с друзьями" - will also do.

[fint.livejournal.com]

тусить
зависать

[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

These two are more informal and colloquial than the first one.

[aravir.livejournal.com]

"развлекаться"? "отдыхать"? 8-/

[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

Too formal :))

[rottenshworz.livejournal.com]

страдать фигнёй.

[rodmonga.livejournal.com]

гонять балду )))

[oscar-6.livejournal.com]

No. This one means "jerking off", not "hanging out".

[mricon.livejournal.com]

Um... No it doesn't. It means more or less "pass time doing nothing," except I would have said "пинать балду." It's possible that it does mean "jerking off" in some odd little corner of the Russophone universe, but it's definitely news to me.

[kart.livejournal.com]

Perhaps гонять балду or лысого гонять could be figurative ways to describe what oscar_6 was talking about, or maybe they have double meaning....

Just hanging around, that is simply х** пинать. By the way, don't say any of this stuff in front of your grandmother ;)

[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

Never heard this one. Well, I'm too old, though.

[dimm17.livejournal.com]

Sorry, I've never heard of this. And all the proper vvariants are already listed here.

[ozzy-swine.livejournal.com]

By the way, also you can speak a kind of "затусить" or "устроить тусу"

[draguta.livejournal.com]

"тусить"