V.

extemporize; fake; hit off; fantasy; extemporise; phantasy; strike off; improvise (to compose and perform (a poem, tune etc.) without preparation • The pianist forgot his music and had to improvise); act on a hunch (ad_notam); speak impromptu (VLZ_58); make it up as one goes along (VLZ_58); think on one's feet (VLZ_58); take it as it comes (VLZ_58); speak off the cuff (VLZ_58); speak off the top of one's head (VLZ_58); busk it (VLZ_58); get creative (Taras); ad lib; adlib (AlexP73); spitball (A "spitball" was a baseball pitch where the pitcher would literally spit on the ball or apply saliva or other substances to alter its flight (now illegal). This kind of pitch was unpredictable, kind of slippery, tricky — and over time, the word "spitball" came to mean something messy, experimental, or makeshift. • I'm just spitbaling here vogeler); noodle; ride; mock up

Amerik., Slang.

wing it

idiom.

make up as goes along (None of us really knew how to play the game, so we just made it up as we went along. VLZ_58); play by the ear (george serebryakov)

Makarow.

strike; ad-lib a joke; do an improvisation; improvise on

Makarow., Lat.

ad-librium (обыкн на сцене или по радио)

Makarow., umg., Lat.

ad-lib (обыкн на сцене или по радио)

Mus., Amerik.

ride (в джазе)

Mus., Jar.

jam (в джазе)

Mus., Makarow.

vamp (особ. аккомпанемент)

Slang.

ad lib (в разговоре, чтении написанного текста или музыкальном исполнении); ad-lib (в разговоре, чтении написанного текста или музыкальном исполнении); wing it (в любой области)

Theater., Makarow.

fake a line

umg.

ad-lib; wing (winging Eugenev); freestyle (глагол) Lily Snape); rift (No direct quotes here, just rifting. joyand); play something by ear (to do something without special preparation • He decided to remain calm and play it by ear. Snowklkl)

veralt.

improvisate

übertr.

play by ear (Andrey Truhachev)

импровизируя V.