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Irregular inflected forms: frolicked    , frolicking   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Gay or light-hearted recreational activity for diversion or amusement

Example:

their frolic in the surf threatened to become ugly

Synonyms:

caper; frolic; gambol; play; romp

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("frolic" is a kind of...):

diversion; recreation (an activity that diverts or amuses or stimulates)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "frolic"):

coquetry; dalliance; flirt; flirtation; flirting; toying (playful behavior intended to arouse sexual interest)

craziness; folly; foolery; indulgence; lunacy; tomfoolery (foolish or senseless behavior)

game (frivolous or trifling behavior)

horseplay (rowdy or boisterous play)

teasing (playful vexation)

word play (playing on words or speech sounds)

Derivation:

frolic (play boisterously)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Play boisterously

Example:

The toddlers romped in the playroom

Synonyms:

cavort; disport; frisk; frolic; gambol; lark; lark about; rollick; romp; run around; skylark; sport

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "frolic" is one way to...):

play (be at play; be engaged in playful activity; amuse oneself in a way characteristic of children)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

frolic (gay or light-hearted recreational activity for diversion or amusement)

Credits

 Context examples: 

And if you grow like him she won't be willing to have us frolic together as we do now.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I'm not going to be lectured and pummelled by everyone, just for a bit of a frolic.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

"I don't mean to act any more after this time. I'm getting too old for such things," observed Meg, who was as much a child as ever about 'dressing-up' frolics.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Such plays and tableaux, such sleigh rides and skating frolics, such pleasant evenings in the old parlor, and now and then such gay little parties at the great house.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

They shopped, walked, rode, and called all day, went to theaters and operas or frolicked at home in the evening, for Annie had many friends and knew how to entertain them.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He looked so wistful as he went away, hearing the frolic and evidently having none of his own.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Yet it seemed a lonely, lifeless sort of house, for no children frolicked on the lawn, no motherly face ever smiled at the windows, and few people went in and out, except the old gentleman and his grandson.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Being only 'a glorious human boy', of course he frolicked and flirted, grew dandified, aquatic, sentimental, or gymnastic, as college fashions ordained, hazed and was hazed, talked slang, and more than once came perilously near suspension and expulsion.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Bereft of his cake, defrauded of his frolic, and borne away by a strong hand to that detested bed, poor Demi could not restrain his wrath, but openly defied Papa, and kicked and screamed lustily all the way upstairs.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)