What is "gallivant"

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.

"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.\n\nYoung Lobski said to his ugly wife,\n
"I'm off till to-morrow to fish, my life;"\n
Says Mrs. Lobski, "I'm sure you a'nt",\n
But you brute you are going to gallivant."\n

\nWhat Mrs. Lobski said was right,
Gay Mr. Lobski was out all night.\n
He ne'er went to fish, 'tis known very well\n
But where he went I shall not tell.\n

["Songs from the Exile," in "Literary Panorama," London, 1809]

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

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

Gallivant is the first feature-length movie by Andrew Kötting. Released in 1996, it was a "highly idiosyncratic" documentary. It recorded a journey the director took clockwise around the coast of Britain accompanied by his 85-year-old grandmother, Gladys, and his seven-year-old daughter Eden. Eden was born at Guy's Hospital, London, in 1988 with a rare genetic disorder – Joubert syndrome – causing cerebral vermis hypoplasia and several other neurological complications. The growing closeness between these two and the sense of impending mortality give the film its emotional underpinning.