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Definition of frolic in English: frolicverbfrolicked, frolicking, frolics ˈfrɒlɪkˈfrɑlɪk 1no object, usually with adverbial Play or move about in a cheerful and lively way. Edward frolicked on the sand Example sentencesExamples - We lounged outside the bar in the sun as we waited for our friends to arrive, while the children frolicked on the beach.
- One, sans tagline, shows kids, parents and grandparents frolicking on a beach with headline 'Caribbean Cruises'.
- Gone are the days when children frolicked on streets all day and had to be shouted at to return home in time for dinner.
- I liked to take my time and watch the animals frolicking in the late afternoon sun.
- Susie and I were shown through to the conservatory at the back of the dining-room, overlooking the tennis courts and lawns, where a small group of children laughed and joked as they frolicked on the grass.
- He was standing by the fireplace, watching their children frolicking on the carpet.
- Now, they are free to frolic in pools and do all the other things that bears love to do.
- In summer, dolphins frolic just past the breakers, and shorebirds play tag with the crystal waves.
- The birds chirped cheerful songs and the deer frolicked in the meadow.
- There were new born lambs frolicking in the fields nearby.
- Their soft mains floated carelessly as they frolicked in the sun.
- The Dolphins' calls filled our ears as they frolicked around in the habitat created for them.
- At last, lambs frolic in the fields as white fluffy clouds bob overhead.
- He was true horse that loved to frolic in the fields with or without a rider.
- The beach stretches some 3 1/2 miles, with dolphins frolicking just offshore at dawn and dusk.
- She skipped and frolicked and danced around the deck, her shift flying in the wind.
- I watched the sunrise from a chair made of driftwood; offshore, fur seals frolicked on a sea-battered rock; a few feet away, snakes slithered through a stone wall.
- You don't make the long trek here to frolic in the surf and sand.
- The children frolicked in the mud and a cloud of dust rose above the place.
- She laughed at the antics of a family of ducks who frolicked in the afternoon sun.
Synonyms frisk, gambol, cavort, caper, cut capers, sport, scamper, skip, dance, romp, trip, prance, leap, spring, hop, jump, bounce, bob rare curvet, rollick, capriole - 1.1 Play about with someone in a flirtatious or sexual way.
he denied allegations that he frolicked with a secretary Example sentencesExamples - And when you run out of ideas as a filmmaker, stick a soft rock ballad on the soundtrack and do a montage of lovers frolicking.
- He frolics with milkmaids, and is expected to frolic.
- A little quick, I know, but the major problem is that although I initially thought I just wanted a chance to be charming and have some summertime frolicking, I am getting attached.
- There's footage of him frolicking naked in a bathtub with three of the groupies, while the soundtrack contains his musings.
- The TV stations said a pimp was the source of the story about the footballers frolicking with prostitutes.
nounPlural frolics ˈfrɒlɪkˈfrɑlɪk often frolics1A playful and lively movement or activity. his injuries were inflicted by the frolics of a young filly Example sentencesExamples - The kids converged on Ryston Social club for their annual bash, and left with a fine present under their arms after a day of fun, frolics and music.
- His film Baby Snakes captured one of these marathon gigs in 1979; now Halloween gives us a selection from the previous year's fun and frolics.
- This twelve hour journey was filled with fun, frolics and 16 young Irish people trying to grasp on to the fact that they were chosen for this trip of a lifetime.
- Also on Friday night there was plenty of fun and frolics with the ever-popular wheelbarrow race making a welcome return while it was in many of the local pubs that the festival kicked off in earnest.
- Another fun-filled night is lined up complete with six Santas to add to the festive frolics.
- The pair will share the stage at Market Gate to launch the town centre's festive frolics which will keep shoppers entertained in the run-up to Christmas.
- Fun and frolics were enjoyed by all, with a host of activities on offer to the public including side shows, games and even a round of crazy golf!
- There's festive fun and frolics with Boycie and Marlene in John Sullivan's popular Only Fools And Horses spin-off.
- It should be a magnificent day of fun and frolics for the younger children of the region.
- There will be top class entertainment, a bar extension and lots of fun and frolics on the night.
- The fun and frolics usually start at about 6.30 am when the heavy goods vehicles start charging past, untroubled by the speed tables courtesy of their axle width.
- On a day when young and old enjoy the fun and frolics, Deen Celtic Soccer Club and the Parish Development Committee join forces to provide the entertainment.
- Hampton Hill High Street will be closed on Friday, November 28, for another spectacular evening of festive fun and frolics.
- The Aqua Dome first opened its doors on May 10, 1994 and to make this milestone staff and management have organised three days of fun and frolics for the young and young at heart.
- What one needs in journalism is plenty of forthright, candid opinion, good old-fashioned invective, frolics and fun.
- Do such clubs and bars exist to satisfy our lust for alcohol fuelled fun and frolics, and without them would we merely find other more dangerous places to continue this culture?
- Many English seaside towns seem as if they are stuck in a time warp, in an era when families and charabancs full of factory workers would converge on the shore for fun and frolics.
- With major financial difficulties put behind them, Rose of Tralee festival organisers got back to the main business in hand last weekend as the crowds descended on Tralee for five days and night of fun and frolics.
- This was followed by musical entertainment which was provided by Waterford's own ‘King’ Rocky Mills while Martin Kennedy was on hand to video all the fun and frolics.
- His playful frolics with foxes and bears show his lack of fear of the wild and disregard for his own safety.
Synonyms antic, caper, game, romp, stunt, escapade, exploit, revel, spree, sport, fling prank, jape giggle, laugh (frolics), fun (and games, merrymaking, amusement informal lark, skylark - 1.1 Flirtatious or sexual activity or actions.
Example sentencesExamples - The grim-faced gutter press made a fetish of her frolics, anointing her Rear of the Year at 16, and dogging her dalliances with boys and drink.
- I believe you're making too much of what should be a thrilling but uncomplicated aspect of your bedroom frolics.
- Thus the split sequences cleverly suggest McGregor and Zellweger indulging in the kind of sexual frolics that would have shocked any audience expecting innocent romance with Doris and Rock Hudson.
- In the intervening years we've been regaled by stories of his prodigious womanizing, which included frolics in the White House.
- And saucy party games, drunken frolics and bikini-clad bodies are certain to be part of the script.
adjective ˈfrɒlɪkˈfrɑlɪk archaic Cheerful, merry, or playful. a thousand forms of frolic life Example sentencesExamples - Where we such clusters had, as made us nobly wild, not mad; And yet each verse of thine out-did the meat, out-did the frolic wine.
- Memories of the frolic era trailed behind for some time; some fizzled out, others are still etched on the mind.
Synonyms playful, frisky, fun-loving, jolly, merry, gleeful, light-hearted, exuberant, high-spirited, spirited, lively, perky, skittish, coltish, kittenish
Derivatives nounˈfrɒlɪkəˈfrɑlɪkər 1A person playing or moving about in a cheerful and lively way. - 1.1 A person engaged in flirtatious or sexual activity.
Example sentencesExamples - two of the finest festive frolickers on the panto scene
- In fact, on a recent New Years Eve, the beachside mansion was full of frolickers that reportedly included some of Sin City's and Chicago's most notorious - rubbing elbows with Vegas and Laguna elite.
- But grasses in the garden have many more uses than hiding bees for the unwary barefoot frolicker.
- We looked like and sounded like all the rest of the mid-summer frolickers, only he was silent.
- a raucous cast of naked frolickers
Origin Early 16th century (as an adjective): from Dutch vrolijk 'merry, cheerful'. Rhymes alcoholic, anabolic, apostolic, bucolic, carbolic, chocoholic, colic, diabolic, embolic, hydraulic, hyperbolic, melancholic, metabolic, parabolic, rollick, shambolic, shopaholic, symbolic, vitriolic, workaholic Definition of frolic in US English: frolicverbˈfrɑlɪkˈfrälik 1no object, usually with adverbial (of an animal or person) play and move about cheerfully, excitedly, or energetically. Edward frolicked on the sand Example sentencesExamples - I liked to take my time and watch the animals frolicking in the late afternoon sun.
- At last, lambs frolic in the fields as white fluffy clouds bob overhead.
- The Dolphins' calls filled our ears as they frolicked around in the habitat created for them.
- The children frolicked in the mud and a cloud of dust rose above the place.
- In summer, dolphins frolic just past the breakers, and shorebirds play tag with the crystal waves.
- Now, they are free to frolic in pools and do all the other things that bears love to do.
- I watched the sunrise from a chair made of driftwood; offshore, fur seals frolicked on a sea-battered rock; a few feet away, snakes slithered through a stone wall.
- Their soft mains floated carelessly as they frolicked in the sun.
- He was standing by the fireplace, watching their children frolicking on the carpet.
- Susie and I were shown through to the conservatory at the back of the dining-room, overlooking the tennis courts and lawns, where a small group of children laughed and joked as they frolicked on the grass.
- There were new born lambs frolicking in the fields nearby.
- He was true horse that loved to frolic in the fields with or without a rider.
- One, sans tagline, shows kids, parents and grandparents frolicking on a beach with headline 'Caribbean Cruises'.
- We lounged outside the bar in the sun as we waited for our friends to arrive, while the children frolicked on the beach.
- The birds chirped cheerful songs and the deer frolicked in the meadow.
- She skipped and frolicked and danced around the deck, her shift flying in the wind.
- She laughed at the antics of a family of ducks who frolicked in the afternoon sun.
- Gone are the days when children frolicked on streets all day and had to be shouted at to return home in time for dinner.
- The beach stretches some 3 1/2 miles, with dolphins frolicking just offshore at dawn and dusk.
- You don't make the long trek here to frolic in the surf and sand.
Synonyms frisk, gambol, cavort, caper, cut capers, sport, scamper, skip, dance, romp, trip, prance, leap, spring, hop, jump, bounce, bob - 1.1 Play about with someone in a flirtatious or sexual way.
he denied allegations that he frolicked with a secretary Example sentencesExamples - And when you run out of ideas as a filmmaker, stick a soft rock ballad on the soundtrack and do a montage of lovers frolicking.
- He frolics with milkmaids, and is expected to frolic.
- A little quick, I know, but the major problem is that although I initially thought I just wanted a chance to be charming and have some summertime frolicking, I am getting attached.
- There's footage of him frolicking naked in a bathtub with three of the groupies, while the soundtrack contains his musings.
- The TV stations said a pimp was the source of the story about the footballers frolicking with prostitutes.
nounˈfrɑlɪkˈfrälik often frolics1A playful action or movement. his injuries were inflicted by the frolics of a young filly the days of fun and frolic were gone for good Example sentencesExamples - On a day when young and old enjoy the fun and frolics, Deen Celtic Soccer Club and the Parish Development Committee join forces to provide the entertainment.
- This was followed by musical entertainment which was provided by Waterford's own ‘King’ Rocky Mills while Martin Kennedy was on hand to video all the fun and frolics.
- Do such clubs and bars exist to satisfy our lust for alcohol fuelled fun and frolics, and without them would we merely find other more dangerous places to continue this culture?
- Also on Friday night there was plenty of fun and frolics with the ever-popular wheelbarrow race making a welcome return while it was in many of the local pubs that the festival kicked off in earnest.
- The pair will share the stage at Market Gate to launch the town centre's festive frolics which will keep shoppers entertained in the run-up to Christmas.
- What one needs in journalism is plenty of forthright, candid opinion, good old-fashioned invective, frolics and fun.
- Many English seaside towns seem as if they are stuck in a time warp, in an era when families and charabancs full of factory workers would converge on the shore for fun and frolics.
- His playful frolics with foxes and bears show his lack of fear of the wild and disregard for his own safety.
- There's festive fun and frolics with Boycie and Marlene in John Sullivan's popular Only Fools And Horses spin-off.
- His film Baby Snakes captured one of these marathon gigs in 1979; now Halloween gives us a selection from the previous year's fun and frolics.
- There will be top class entertainment, a bar extension and lots of fun and frolics on the night.
- The fun and frolics usually start at about 6.30 am when the heavy goods vehicles start charging past, untroubled by the speed tables courtesy of their axle width.
- Fun and frolics were enjoyed by all, with a host of activities on offer to the public including side shows, games and even a round of crazy golf!
- The Aqua Dome first opened its doors on May 10, 1994 and to make this milestone staff and management have organised three days of fun and frolics for the young and young at heart.
- The kids converged on Ryston Social club for their annual bash, and left with a fine present under their arms after a day of fun, frolics and music.
- Hampton Hill High Street will be closed on Friday, November 28, for another spectacular evening of festive fun and frolics.
- This twelve hour journey was filled with fun, frolics and 16 young Irish people trying to grasp on to the fact that they were chosen for this trip of a lifetime.
- Another fun-filled night is lined up complete with six Santas to add to the festive frolics.
- With major financial difficulties put behind them, Rose of Tralee festival organisers got back to the main business in hand last weekend as the crowds descended on Tralee for five days and night of fun and frolics.
- It should be a magnificent day of fun and frolics for the younger children of the region.
Synonyms antic, caper, game, romp, stunt, escapade, exploit, revel, spree, sport, fling - 1.1 Flirtatious or sexual activity or actions.
Example sentencesExamples - In the intervening years we've been regaled by stories of his prodigious womanizing, which included frolics in the White House.
- I believe you're making too much of what should be a thrilling but uncomplicated aspect of your bedroom frolics.
- Thus the split sequences cleverly suggest McGregor and Zellweger indulging in the kind of sexual frolics that would have shocked any audience expecting innocent romance with Doris and Rock Hudson.
- And saucy party games, drunken frolics and bikini-clad bodies are certain to be part of the script.
- The grim-faced gutter press made a fetish of her frolics, anointing her Rear of the Year at 16, and dogging her dalliances with boys and drink.
adjectiveˈfrɑlɪkˈfrälik archaic Cheerful, merry, or playful. a thousand forms of frolic life Example sentencesExamples - Where we such clusters had, as made us nobly wild, not mad; And yet each verse of thine out-did the meat, out-did the frolic wine.
- Memories of the frolic era trailed behind for some time; some fizzled out, others are still etched on the mind.
Synonyms playful, frisky, fun-loving, jolly, merry, gleeful, light-hearted, exuberant, high-spirited, spirited, lively, perky, skittish, coltish, kittenish
Origin Early 16th century (as an adjective): from Dutch vrolijk ‘merry, cheerful’. |