Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Gaiety; merriment: fun and frolic.
- n. A gay, carefree time.
- n. A playful antic.
- v. To behave playfully and uninhibitedly; romp.
- v. To engage in merrymaking, joking, or teasing.
- adj. Archaic Merry.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Gay; merry; sportive; full of mirth or pranks.
- n. A flight of levity or gaiety and mirth; a prank.
- n. A scene of gaiety and mirth, as in dancing or play; a merrymaking.
- n. A plaything or an ornament.
- n. Synonyms Gambol, escapade.
- To play merry pranks; engage in acts of levity, mirth, and gaiety.
Wiktionary
- adj. Merry, joyous; later especially, frolicsome, sportive, full of playful mischief.
- adj. Free; liberal; bountiful; generous.
- n. Gaiety; merriment.
- n. A playful antic.
- v. To romp; to behave playfully and uninhibitedly.
- v. To cause to be merry.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Full of levity; dancing, playing, or frisking about; full of pranks; frolicsome; gay; merry.
- n. A wild prank; a flight of levity, or of gayety and mirth.
- n. A scene of gayety and mirth, as in lively play, or in dancing; a merrymaking.
- v. To play wild pranks; to play tricks of levity, mirth, and gayety; to indulge in frolicsome play; to sport.
WordNet 3.0
- v. play boisterously
- n. gay or light-hearted recreational activity for diversion or amusement
Etymologies
- From Dutch vrolijk, merry, from Middle Dutch vrolijc : vro, happy + -lijc, -like; see līk- in Indo-European roots.
Examples
“We looked up in the dictionary the word frolic, and it's -- the definition is something like a playful, mischievous action.”
“But if such was her mischievous purpose she was completely disappointed; for Roland Graeme, internally piquing himself on his self-command, neither laughed nor was discomposed; and all that the maiden gained by her frolic was a severe rebuke from her companion, taxing her with mal-address and indecorum.”
“Anyone who would self-identify as a frolic-er is a dorc.”
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“What the hell, the word frolic has no business on a football blog.)”
“In all there was an air of release, and the young people looked as if they were going to one of the social gatherings they would have called a frolic, in the backwoods phrase.”
“And Tom laughed, as he recalled the frolic he had been on the night before.”
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“Tom laughed, as he recalled the frolic he had been on the night before.”
“And this, too, I suppose she calls a frolic; or, in her own vulgar language, fun.”
“The dancers are all dressed in what appear to be 19th Century-style bathing suits, and they kind of frolic with each other on what I imagine to be a beach.”
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“On "frolic" the fairies throw the colored-light eggs in the air.”
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allegria's wordarama
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duckbill As an adjective:
"It was sweet to see them so frolic." Apr 23, 2011
bilby A possibly fun village in Northumberland, England. Jan 1, 2008
ravages cues green, rolling meadows.
cues warm sunlight and a gentle breeze.
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