(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”.
Spree
Definition:
(n.) A merry frolic; especially, a drinking frolic; a carousal.
Example Sentences:
(1) Qatar’s royal family may have snapped up Canary Wharf for £2.6bn this week, adding to its London portfolio of Harrods and the Shard skyscraper, but the Gulf billionaires’ property spree has finally run into a dead end – a humble town hall bureaucrat.
(2) When Google bought Boston Dynamics, it was in the midst of an acquisition spree spearheaded by Andy Rubin, the former head of Android.
(3) In a sign that the killing spree has left no sector of Norwegian society untouched, the royal court has announced that the 51-year-old was the stepbrother of Mette-Marit, Norway's crown princess.
(4) Stephen King, the chief global economist at HSBC, the former Goldman Sachs economist Gavyn Davies and Roger Farmer, a professor of economics at the University of California, told MPs on the Treasury select committee that it would be unwise to embark on a large-scale spending spree to boost growth while government debt remained high.
(5) Things start getting out of control when Rocket's younger gang target the clients of a sleazy motel and the raid, intended to be bloodless, becomes a killing spree.
(6) The banks, whose irresponsible lending spree did much to produce the crisis in the first place, are raking in squillions, the bulk of the hundreds of billions in bailout funds lent by the eurozone since 2010.
(7) By the time a second, more explicit warning was sent, Cho was near the end of his shooting spree.
(8) The Emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, ascended to power last year after his father, who oversaw the World Cup bid and set in train the huge spending spree, handed over power.
(9) In what appeared to be a planned spree – Rodger uploaded YouTube videos in which he denounced women for spurning him and vowed to take “great pleasure in slaughtering all of you” – he allegedly started by stabbing three men repeatedly in an apartment some time before 9.30pm on Friday.
(10) The pattern of consumption (e.g., amount consumed per occasion, spree drinking) was also unrelated to impairment, and the critical neuropathological factor appeared to be the total amount of lifetime alcohol consumption.
(11) Apartment building spree: will it lead to a glut, or transform the way we live?
(12) I n March 2012, a 23-year-old petty criminal named Mohamed Merah went on a shooting spree – a series of three attacks over a period of nine days – in south-west France, killing seven people.
(13) But it was there in the resolve of Liverpool’s players, confidence drained and playing before an anxious audience, in the pragmatism of a manager prepared to omit from his starting line-up £113m of a £117m summer spending spree and in Johnson’s match-winning goal.
(14) Twenty minutes into the spree he took the bizarre step of making a 911 call in which he reportedly referred both to Islamic State and the Tsarnaevs, the brothers who carried out the Boston Marathon bombings in April 2013.
(15) It is too soon to deliver a verdict on the value for money achieved in the spree but flair is insufficient.
(16) He was arrested on Sunday after a shooting spree that killed a 14-year-old boy and his grandfather outside a popular Jewish community center, and a third victim outside a nearby Jewish retirement home in the Kansas City suburb of Overland Park.
(17) Soldiers went on looting sprees, and 1 victim of their marauding became a 12-year old boy who got shot for refusing to part with his bike.
(18) Most of the woes can be traced to businesses bought during a massive acquisition spree after 1999, when Sir John Bond was chairman.
(19) There are about 400,000 Nepalese workers in Qatar among the 1.4 million migrants working on a £137bn construction spree in the tiny Gulf state.
(20) The spree in summer clothes buying in April means fewer shorts, sandals and other seasonal items will be bought in coming months.