1694 T. D'Urfey Comical Hist. Don Quixote: Pt. 2nd iv. iii. 44 Daughter, mine, take care of Romping.

1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. 56 I have torn my Petticoat with your odious Romping.

1788 W. Beckford Spanish Jrnl. 9 Jan. (1954) 312 Dined at the Portuguese Ambassador's, then to Ahmeel Vassif, where there was romping and dancing.

1825 W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1826) I. 135 The period that ushers in the carnival with rompings in the streets.

1863 M. T. P. Mann & E. P. Peabody Moral Culture of Infancy iv. 37 The music and song will prevent disagreeable romping.

1915 W. Churchill Far Country xix. 345 I had come..seeking quiet, my brain occupied with a problem, only to be annoyed by the romping of the children on the landing above.

1948 Life 6 Sept. 31/2 (advt.) Study, play and just plain romping use up children's energy in jigtime.

2007 G. Logsdon Mother of All Arts 301 Unfortunately, hay is an uncomfortably prickly landing strip for sexual romping.

1662 Duchess of Newcastle Matrimonial Trouble i. iv. xxxviii, in Playes Written 450 They are bold, impudent, rude, flanting, ranting, romping women.

1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 187. ⁋3 The Air she gave herself was that of a Romping Girl.

1752 W. Chaigneau Hist. Jack Connor I. iii. 25 Mirth in every Shape abounded; but Jack seem'd to drop all the romping Sporters.

1810 A. Boswell Edinburgh 29 There romping Miss the rounded slate may drop, And kick it out with persevering hop.

1839 P. J. Bailey Festus 189 Thine eyes are like two romping stars.

1869 A. Trollope He knew he was Right I. xlvii. 364 Simply a romping girl, hardly more than a year or two beyond her teens.

1887 H. Caine Deemster I. vi. 112 And so five tearing, romping years went by.

1949 D. Du Maurier Parasites (1950) ii. 13 The foreign manager, smiling, obsequious, bowed us welcome, but with a look of apprehension in his eyes at the sight of..the romping children.

1995 T. Shipley Intersensory Origin of Mind v. 104 Time, for the meditating spiritualist, passes..quite differently than it does for the romping youth.

1723 D. Bellamy Short Ess. Art of Pronunc. in Young Ladies Misc. p. ii Boisterous Words, like romping Actions, are very indecent, and very offensive.

1746 Acct. Life & Family Miss Jenny Cameron 23 In private, she took all Opportunities of indulging that romping Humour, to which she had been accustomed in her Infancy.

1797 S. J. Pratt Family Secrets II. iii. 10 Partington..had the romping playfulness of a boy.

1801 M. Edgeworth Good French Governess in Moral Tales V. 134 Miss Fanshaw, in a romping manner, pulled the paper out of her hands.

1835 Politeness & Gd.-breeding 48 Avoid all romping tricks.

1890 ‘L. Falconer’ Mademoiselle Ixe iv [She] listened respectfully to a denunciation of lawn tennis as a romping and unfeminine pastime.

1908 P. Wilstach Richard Mansfield iii. 34 After a romping search in every hole and corner the young people had found thirty-five eggs.

1975 J. McDonald et al. Something's Afoot i. 30 I say, anyone up to a romping game of chess?

2008 Running Times July–Aug. 66/2 A more complex and stressful race than his romping victory in Central Park last November.

1724 D'Urfey's Love for Money (new ed.) iv. ii. 73 (stage direct.) Leaps rompingly [1691 rampingly].

1803 S. T. Coleridge Let. 14 Jan. (1956) II. 917 Playing too long & too rompingly with Hartley & Derwent I was very unwell that evening.

1902 E. A. Allen Sunset Song & Other Verses 155 They urge the hop-vine to climb so fast We see its growth in an afternoon, And bid it rompingly hurry past The patient ivy.

2002 M. Frady Martin Luther King Jr. (2006) 18 Martin discovered on the Morehouse campus a heady intellectual release from his father's constricting proprieties, with rompingly free discussions about any issue whatsoever.