What is "frolic"

Usage examples of "frolic".

That evening, after their frolic on the beach, I intend to bring all the Chatterford alumnae home -- except Eva.

Therefore, dear reader, I trust that, far from attaching to my history the character of impudent boasting, you will find in my Memoirs only the characteristic proper to a general confession, and that my narratory style will be the manner neither of a repenting sinner, nor of a man ashamed to acknowledge his frolics.

You will narrate yourself all your mad frolics, people will laugh, and at the same time will admire you for having listened to reason the moment I came here.

There, cavorting and frolicking in the hot mineral pools amid petrified crystal waterfalls tumbling down the cliffs, he succeeded in forgetting all about the laughter of Rhodesand Chian ships which gave him the fright of his life.

He informed me that, before deciding to serve me, he had wished to know whether I was kept in the fort for any great crime, but as the wife of the major had told him that my imprisonment had been caused by very trifling frolics, I could rely upon him.

The money was intended for extravagant follies, and by applying it to my own frolics I did not turn it into a very different, channel.

Four alert eyes, four steady hands kept them from being sucked under--then came the triumph of meeting the first wave that left the steamboat, and the extatic rocking motion of the skiff as she rode the other waves in the wake--but to catch the first was the point in the frolic!

Rabs frisk en frolic, en play fudder off, but dey keep der years primed.

On another occasion she spots some frolicking seals out near the Gizzen Briggs.

I was rather surprised at such an invitation, and told him that such frolics were not worth listening to, and the general not pressing me no more was said about it.

And yet I carol as jocound a lay, my heart is as light and frolic, and the tranquility of self-acquittal spreads her wings as wide over my bosom, as they could were I lord of a hundred hills, and called all the streamlets of the valley my own.

Wulfgar moved to the side of it and stood gazing down at her as she rolled about and in joysome frolic scattered the pelts, flinging some to the floor.

Elizabeth aslumber, but the sims also awake, and at frolic meseems, from the noises up the stairway.

The dagger point drifted to the south of the map, stopping a bit north of the border of Mide, just southwest of a couple of largish extenuated lakes in which the artist had long-necked creatures that resembled plesiosaurs frolicking and chasing after silvery-scaled fishes.

Orn, reminiscing of childhood days, of frolicking and banter, wondering how and why Orn had changed.