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I need a word to describe going out and doing something, which is thought through but not necessarily fully planned.

Like all of a sudden thinking "I want to go to a club" while sitting on your couch, then going out and just doing it.

A contextual example will be:

You're doing nothing and want to do something. You're presented with a list of possible chooses that may interest you. You pick one, and just do it.

Best Answer

Gallivant:

  1. : to travel, roam, or move about for pleasure

It has some diverging connotations, but it does include idle roaming without a productive purpose:

Gallivant. g is a fine old word, meaning, in the words of the Oxford English Dictionary, "to gad about in a showy fashion, [especially] with persons of the other sex." To gad means "to wander around idly," so gallivanting translates more or less as "wandering around flirting"...

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