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US
/ˈfɹɑɫɪk/
]
[ UK /fɹˈɒlɪk/ ]
[ UK /fɹˈɒlɪk/ ]
VERB
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play boisterously
the gamboling lambs in the meadows
The toddlers romped in the playroom
The children frolicked in the garden
NOUN
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gay or light-hearted recreational activity for diversion or amusement
their frolic in the surf threatened to become ugly
it was all done in play
How To Use frolic In A Sentence
- There were new born lambs frolicking in the fields nearby.
- So the second half was a pantomime, all fun and frolics and not very serious at all. Times, Sunday Times
- frolicsome students celebrated their graduation with parties and practical jokes
- Those of us who remember the 1970s recall the frolics sparked by America’s last great experiment with widespread price caps – namely, those on oil and natural gas. Day Two: the Speaker and House Majority Leader Back Away from ObamaCare | RedState
- But you," I demanded hotly; "you with your orgies of sound and sense, with your mad cities and madder frolics — bethink you that you win? WHEN GOD LAUGHS
- You know, boys were frolicsome, so they would distract your attention when you were doing things.
- A hundred years before Bushnell gave his speech, New England gifts were embroidering frolicking lambs and winsome shepherdesses on needlework pictures and samplers.
- It should be a magnificent day of fun and frolics for the younger children of the region.
- Too staid for the formation of ripples, too swift for calm content, the river seemed to boil up from below in a kind of frolicsome rage. Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia
- Theodora Richards has posed nude, and Jade Jagger loves nothing more than an Ibizan frolic in what English schhoolgirls used to call "the noddy. Andy Pemberton: Keith Richards' Daughter Alexandra Embarrasses Dad by Posing Nude for French Playboy
