(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”.
Sportive
Definition:
(a.) Tending to, engaged in, or provocate of, sport; gay; froliscome; playful; merry.
Example Sentences:
(1) Among the chromosomal rearrangements that occurred during the chromosomal evolution of the sportive lemurs, only those which would generate a pronounced reproductive barrier were considered in relation to the geographic distribution of this genus.
(2) Today more younger patients were operated replacing a destroyed hip joint: the reintegration in professional and sportive activities is a major part of the rehabilitation process.
(3) Of the 149 patients, 130 had been injured in sportive activities and 110 were able to return to some degree of athletics.
(4) They also discuss the problems of muscle atrophy and the time at which sportive activities of varying strains may be taken up again.
(5) It reduces the theoric immobilization time, makes rehabilitation easier as well as the return to sportive and professional activities.
(6) In September 2008 I watched a crowd of no more than a hundred fans of Espérance Sportive Tunis – the major team of the country – take on the riot police in the backstreets around Place de Carthage and Place de Barcelone.
(7) Not only does OLT provide mere survival (among 5 patients with lethal hepatic disease, 4 are alive at 2 years from OLT), it also provides a regained quality of life with a virtually normal (for the price of a daily medication intake) family, professional and sportive life.
(8) Specificity of ultrastructural organization of the skeletal muscle fibers is revealed in connection with sportive specialization.
(9) Schleck is now the favourite for this summer's race and he said: "My goal is to win the Tour de France in a sportive way, being the best of all competitors, not in court.
(10) On account of the fact that the regular wheelchair, above all when "sportively styled", is forcing both legs, i.e.
(11) 5 of those 10 patients were free of complaints during sportive activities 3 years later.
(12) To avoid this and to conserve the sportive ability we recommend the displacement of the tuberositas tibiae to medial and distal.
(13) 10 out of those 11 patients had no complaints during their sportive activities 3 years after this operation.
(14) A retrospective analysis of 29 patients with regard to their sportive activities after operative treatment of osteochondritis dissecans was carried out.
(15) A review of consecutive treatment methods and professional and sportive rehabilitation measures are presented.
(16) On comparison of the West African potto with two other prosimian myoglobins known so far, there were 12 differences between the potto and the galago (East African) and 18 differences between the potto and the sportive lemur (Madagascar).
(17) Graham Little, presenter of ITV4's The Cycle Show I'll be watching stage two at Ballycastle, a beautiful spot and also the start and finish of the Giant's Causeway Coast Sportive that I help organise!
(18) Ergospirometry was performed in 19 children and adolescents operated for tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) to assess their exercise capacity compared to an active non sportive control group.
(19) In 1908, glorifying the sportive energy of combat, the Italian futurist Marinetti called war “the hygiene of the world”.
(20) All patients were able to continue their sportive activity after the excision of the paratenon.