Originally: †a reveller, a merrymaker (obsolete). Now more generally: a person engaged in recreation or amusement rather than work. rare after 16th…

One who dallies: see the verb.

A person engaged in a pastime or a sport.

A person who pursues a recreation or is devoted to recreation; a recreationalist (recreationalist n. at recreational, adj. derivatives). Also (quot…

A person who seeks pleasure; spec. a holidaymaker.

A pleasure-seeker, esp. one on holiday; (now) spec. a person taking a trip on a trawler or other boat purely for recreational purposes.

Weakened or exhausted by exertion, etc.; fatigued, wearied; also, sick or weary of, impatient with… the tired businessman: a cliché, often used with…

one who loons.