Go in search of fun

• Gad about gaily
• Impertinence shown by terrible old ruler - time to run around
• Travel from German holiday home, going North with six-footer
• Go out to have fun in good place to live, returning with foreign tan

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"gad about, spend time in frivolous pleasure-seeking, especially with the opposite sex," 1809, of uncertain origin, perhaps a playful elaboration of gallant in an obsolete verbal sense of "play the gallant, flirt, gad about." Related: Gallivanted ; gallivanting ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Is that what you tell your patients, to go dancing and gallivanting around just after breaking a hip? ▪ Would you have her dragged up by a succession of au pairs and housekeepers while you went gallivanting all over the world?

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (context intransitive English) To roam about for pleasure without any definite plan.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
v. wander aimlessly in search of pleasure [syn: gad , jazz around ]

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gallivant \Gal"li*vant\, v. i. [From Gallant .] To play the beau; to wait upon the ladies; also, to roam about for pleasure without any definite plan. [Slang] --Dickens.