Knock about

It was known that he would knock his wife about when he had been drinking.

I never saw quite so wretched an example of what a sea-faring life can do; but to a degree, I know it is the same with them all: they are all knocked about, and exposed to every climate, and every weather, till they are not fit to be seen.

[Y]oung Mustafa refused to cook rice; Farraj and Daud knocked him about until he cried; […]

The place also got knocked about during the English Civil War, with "the spire [of its church] having been destroyed by the artillery of the Parliamentary forces".

He [a hare] used to knock about here in Holleia, and they said he was nearly black. A good many were after him and had a shot at him, but they never had any luck, until this rascally Andreas came here.

[I]n the chart-room of the steamer Nan-Shan, he stood confronted by the fall of a barometer he had no reason to distrust. […] "That's a fall, and no mistake," he thought. "There must be some uncommonly dirty weather knocking about."

I like to knock about the garden on Saturdays.

I used to knock about with John when we were younger.

John and I used to knock about when we were younger.

I’ve got some scissors knocking about in the kitchen.