What is "carryings-on"

Usage examples of "carryings-on".

There were such splashing and carryings-on that the communal bathing deteriorated into a sporting event.

She couldn’t afford the carryings-on with Bradley to come out if she wanted to win it.

For all his carryings-on he’s not one to cut his stick when my lord’s in trouble, which I’m much afraid he may be!

The carryings-on of the denizens of a faraway castle were no business of mine.

I looked like Mother Goodwill's older brother—as ill-tempered an old duffer as ever gnashed his gums at the carryings-on of the younger generation.