(a.) Full of levity; dancing, playing, or frisking about; full of pranks; frolicsome; gay; merry.
(n.) A wild prank; a flight of levity, or of gayety and mirth.
(n.) A scene of gayety and mirth, as in lively play, or in dancing; a merrymaking.
(v. i.) To play wild pranks; to play tricks of levity, mirth, and gayety; to indulge in frolicsome play; to sport.
Example Sentences:
(1) This is not a time to be engaged in a frolic,” he says.
(2) If ministers have ordered the public service to pursue this anti-democratic frolic it’s a clear abuse of power.
(3) Known for his flamboyant verbal attacks and overturning even the largest electoral majorities of his opponents, he has taken in everything from US senate committee hearings to feline frolics in Celebrity Big Brother.
(4) The flicker and dazzle was conducive to hallucinatory drugs and the hi-tech fun 'n' frolics found the perfect interzone between futurism and regression to childhood.
(5) Even then a madcap day was not done with folly and frolic as France, on their own line, 20 points down and with nothing at all to gain, tapped and ran.
(6) Instead of a sober inquisitorial process it descended into an adversarial attack, and instead of a search for the truth we witnessed taxpayer-funded lawyers on a frolic, cross-examining police officers as if they were on trial.” King cited the cross-examination of a senior police commander as an example of lawyers “twisting words” and grandstanding to the media.
(7) The indulgence of knights and dames: nostalgia for empire, a frolic that does nothing beyond telling voters Abbott is too in love with the past to understand the future.
(8) Girls laugh and frolic joyfully in the water, their brightly coloured jilbabs soaking as the tide comes in.
(9) Look at it again, if you doubt me - he's the heart and head of the picture, and he is delighted to realise that North By Northwest is a frolic, a dance in mid-air, a fabulous absurdity.
(10) If he responds that it has been a thrill to be the first Liberal in many, many decades to be entitled deputy prime minister, then he will expose himself to the accusation that he is on a power frolic while thousands of voters are suffering the effects of spending cuts, tax rises and job losses.
(11) Hours later a criminal case relating to Mr Skuratov's alleged sexual frolics was opened, which was used as the basis for Mr Yeltsin's decree ordering his suspension.
(12) When I was a minister, I would never have countenanced my chief of staff going to such a meeting without my imprimatur and my approval so I think a question does need to be answered whether the chief of staff was there on a frolic of his own or with the imprimatur of the deputy leader.
(13) As the transfer window gasps and sweats its way through the usual high-summer Sahara of inanity there is a newfound starchiness about Spurs’ recruitment, a rolling back from all the fun and frolic towards the youth-oriented austerity promised by Daniel Levy in the spring.
(14) Brooke, more deeply confused than ever, composed a poem, Beauty on Beauty, celebrating their moonlit frolics, but when he was alone with Gardner, his compliments were at best ambiguous.
(15) Tony Abbott will spend the early part of the coming week in a targeted outreach effort with ethnic minorities in Sydney and Melbourne in an effort to build local support for the Coalition’s counter-terrorism measures, and also soothe a grassroots backlash prompted by the government’s early frolic on hate speech.
(16) He is an opposition politician.” Another government minister said Farage was clearly “on a frolic of his own”, adding that high-level visits were already being planned.
(17) Paragliders sail overhead, children frolic in the shallow waves and a camel train carrying sunburned Europeans ambles down Sousse beach as the sun hits its midday peak.
(18) You can still work while the little ones frolic in the sand.
(19) The first surgical anesthetics were a consequence of the resulting student "ether frolics."
(20) The Australian Council of Trade Unions condemned the “narrow” terms of reference, saying the government had “embarked on a $100m frolic which is aimed at damaging unions”.
Rollick
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Managers get furious rollickings should they not 'get out the cheque book' during the transfer window, more so if they 'only' buy an English player.
(2) Republican debate: Las Vegas fight night was rollicking from start to finish Read more Paul was not the only candidate to be demoted to the undercard debate.
(3) A rollicking maritime adventure movie about the mysterious Captain Nemo and his submarine the Nautilus, the original 20,000 Leagues featured Douglas alongside James Mason as Nemo.
(4) 62 min: Belhadj rollicks down the left again and delivers a fine cross, which Bocanegra clears at a stretch.
(5) Following that came the superior Tommy Heavenly6, for which she adopted a goth-lite style and made rollicking 90s-style alt-rock.
(6) The low rectangular houses being built at Old Sarum are based on hut sites excavated by Prof Mike Parker Pearson a few miles from Stonehenge, at Durrington Walls, which he believes were occupied by the monument builders and also the scene of great mid-winter and mid-summer feasts that lasted for rollicking days and nights.
(7) As for Serena’s great rival, Sharapova, she was seen off by Kerber in a rollicking fourth-round match on a sun-dappled, cabriolet Centre Court: 7-6, 4-6, 6-4.
(8) Relations between the two, always fractious, probably weren't helped by the publication last year of Richards's rollicking autobiography, Life , in which he claimed – among other things – that Jagger was "unbearable" and in possession of "a tiny todger… he's got an enormous pair of balls – but it doesn't quite fill the gap".
(9) The morning is so pallid that the only colour seems to come from his collection of rollicking abstract paintings by Gillian Ayres .
(10) A rollicking playboy type himself, Buss was instrumental in turning the Lakers into Los Angeles's team, complete with an aura of glitz and glamor.
(11) Pacquiao reclaimed the welterweight title he surrendered amid controversy to Bradley two years ago, rectifying one of the most mystifying decisions in boxing history with a clinical points victory before 15,601 rollicking fans.
(12) 8.36pm BST Half-time: It's been rollicking fare so far and that Commons goal was the perfect tee-up for an explosive second period.
(13) But you have seen nothing like it before.” Eubank Sr is in rollicking form and it feels like the old days as he regales me with tales of darkness and destruction – in the tortuously modulated manner of a fighter once famous for wearing jodhpurs and a monocle.
(14) Germany 's service sector is growing steadily, with a PMI of 54.7 (down from January's rollicking 55.7, though).
(15) In 1970 they reached No 12 with the rollicking single Down the Dustpipe, but the ensuing albums Ma Kelly’s Greasy Spoon (1970) and Dog of Two Head (1971), their first without Lynes, were unsuccessful.
(16) In one case his features would be set in a brooding scowl of powerful, almost somnolent, determination; at another moment he resembled a rollicking cherubic schoolboy.
(17) Trump counters misogyny allegations by saying Fiorina has a 'beautiful face' Read more With the mood swinging from a rollicking family argument to uncomfortably personal confrontation to shared disdain for liberals, the debate showcased a race with an unusual number of candidates from unusually diverse backgrounds making creative plays for the Republican base.
(18) Over a rollicking accordion line, it narrates how Atillano is captured by the Mexican army, and tortured until he agrees to fly them to the cartel's secret landing strip.
(19) Ben Cort's witty and vibrant illustrations are the perfect match for Claire Freedman's rollicking text.
(20) I have a feeling up in the actual venue is quite rollicking but we've just been told to "keep the volume at a sensible limit".