• pommel horse, vaulting horse, vaulting-horse
• to dawdle, to hack around, to hang, to hang slack, to loaf, to loaf about, to lop over, to play the wag, to play truant, to play wag, to skulk, to swing the lead
• dangling, floppy, scallywag, skulk
• to brandish, to dangle, to sway, to swing, swung
• to jerk, to tell stories
• absenteeism, cut, suspension
• bum, malingerer, shirker, skiver, skulk, slacker