What's the difference between frolicking and skylarking?
Frolicking
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Frolic
Example Sentences:
(1) In film, music videos and TV shows, especially those traditionally consumed by a young demographic, we are used to seeing women stripping and frolicking with one another.
(2) But once the joy of frolicking around in a lake was over, the reality started to set in: what do offenders do when they get out?
(3) Wind forward a couple of days and there were already more than 100,000 items on a Google search under Nigella and burkini; the image had been beautifully subverted in a Times cartoon on the op-ed page (it was Nick Clegg's turn to be burkini-ed as he frolicked in the surf with Cameron), and dozens of shots of her unusual swimwear were in newspapers and on websites attracting thousands of hits.
(4) The rest of the game’s segment in the presentation was given over to some well-shot footage of the team working on the game and frolicking on location, obviously enjoying the job of raiding Lucasfilm atchives for source material.
(5) Two superstars frolicking the to get the attention of a man certainly doesn't help the bisexual cause, which is why I have beef with Shakira and RiRi.
(6) Or "Soppy chocolate labrador frolicking in babbling brook weekend".
(7) Outside there was the usual frolicking in the pool.
(8) 9.13pm BST 68 min: Samaras frolicks down the left like a bumpkin in a meadow but then spoons his attempted cross into the crowd.
(9) For as long as there is bling in the ear and ink in the skin, the very words Summer Transfer Window 2013 shall conjure images of children frolicking in acid rain and return the waft of scorched romance to the nostrils.
(10) When I am on holiday, I spend hours frolicking in the waves, looking at starfish through a mask and reading the same paragraph of a terrible thriller for hours.
(11) They walked past spring lambs frolicking in green pastures, with only the sound of nearby rushing streams to accompany them.
(12) The same can’t be said of Russian Blues, which, according to The Russian Blue Breeders Association , are an “elegant foreign type” whose pointed features create “distinctive gentle expression which, together with its essential velvety double coat, gives the breed its unique charm.” The cats – and kittens – are a massive hit on tumblr , frolicking, being dressed up and prowling through the snow with crystal blue eyes.
(13) According to a 2013 television report, which also showed him frolicking with horses and holding pick-up races in Chechnya, Kadyrov bought one thoroughbred for $4m .
(14) Bellerín frolicked in behind Patrick van Aanholt and produced the perfect cutback for Ramsey to angle the ball delicately from close range past Pickford.
(15) The result, Blackfish suggests, is not the frolicking, happy, tame beast that SeaWorld presents to thrill millions of visitors each year, but an aggressive animal who is a danger to his trainers.
(16) Another unlikely item on the Lawrence CV is a photo and video shoot for Esquire magazine earlier this year, in which she threw herself into the kind of role she has firmly refused to offer Hollywood thus far, frolicking (the only word for it) in a bikini in classic sex-kitten mode.
(17) On our last day, we were even joined by a pair of giant otters, frolicking on the banks.
(18) And I became a kind of freak show – a guy with his pants off, his pencil in hand, frolicking around having too good a time.
(19) The missives, set down on Windsor Castle writing paper and sent between 1976 and 1980, reveal a playful prince on the cusp between youthful frolicking and mature responsibility.
(20) Glossy advertising to attract this baby boomer herd tends to feature gentle images of arcadian bliss, of smiling men and women, white, smiling, heterosexual, smiling, holding hands, smiling, enjoying communal barbeques minus smoke and smell, smiling, playing card games in ordered, uncluttered scenes of dustless domesticity, smiling, dressed in styles that don’t come out of local chainstores, smiling, a couple frolicking on a swing, smiling, she's in sensible lavender swirl, he's outfitted by RM Williams, and is pushing her, gently, smiling, against a background of manicured lawns and gardens, all bathed in photoshopped sunlight.
Skylarking
Definition:
(n.) The act of running about the rigging of a vessel in sport; hence, frolicking; scuffing; sporting; carousing.
Example Sentences:
(1) We were excited and looking forward to having a field behind with cow parsley and skylarks.
(2) I once saw a merlin above Burgh Castle spiral in a relentless tight corkscrew as it pursued a skylark that steepled until it was only a dust mote.
(3) The skylark’s summer song is reduced in winter to spits of rage, each broken chirrup rendered to human ears as “get lost!” or something far ruder.
(4) Common bird species such as sparrow and skylark facing decline in Europe Read more The report will embolden campaigners opposed to plans by the European Commission to review two key pieces of environmental legislation - the birds and habitats directives.
(5) The skylark is not the only bird whose sound has influenced generations of poets, writers and composers.
(6) But when future generations download the recordings, and listen to skylarks and nightingales, cuckoos and turtle doves, will they feel a twinge of sadness that these species are no longer with us?
(7) "The fans here are rabid," wrote a user called Skylark .
(8) It seemed as though the fields were shedding skylarks.
(9) As the skylarks fly away, I become aware of a rapid movement along the tideline.
(10) Click here to watch skylark song video Poets and composers have long been mesmerised by the skylark's song, including Shelley, whose Ode to a Skylark opens with the unforgettable pronouncement: " Hail to thee, blithe spirit!
(11) Skylarks are smallish, brown birds with a perky crest and streaky plumage.
(12) Species with larger brain areas that were capable of producing a higher repertoire of syllables included the common blackbird (108 syllables) and the Eurasian skylark (341 syllables).
(13) After several months padding along under those great blue skies, with skylarks apparently forever overhead, came the great test: six weeks alone across the Gobi desert with just my three camels – no phone, no contact with the outside world, no one to know even if I was still alive.
(14) David Adam on the decline of Britain's skylarks and other bird species Read more Two skylarks among a flock of six had begun a chase-my-tail routine over a field of winter wheat.
(15) Science has demonstrated that each skylark needs to find the equivalent of 200 grains of wheat a day to survive cold weather, but here they were apparently frittering away their energy.
(16) Numbers of skylark and ortolan bunting, a songbird illegally hunted and eaten whole in France, have fallen by around half.
(17) Yet no matter how fast and adroitly it jinked and weaved, the pursuing bird held to its tail, maintaining a two-skylark-length distance between them, never closing, never lagging, seeming content with matching every turn of its harried opponent.
(18) The EU State of Nature report, seen by the Guardian, paints a picture of dramatic decline among once common avian species such as the skylark and turtle dove mainly as a result of agricultural pressures, and also warns that ecosystems are struggling to cope with the impact of human activity.
(19) For us, a winter’s day may not have the exhilaration of the skylark’s steepling song flight, but we still thrill to vignettes from this glorious show-off.
(20) In their short lives skylarks had seen it all before, the frequent transformations of their landscapes.