The Collaborative International Dictionary
Romp \Romp\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Romped; p. pr. & vb. n. Romping.] [A variant of ramp. See Ramp to leap, Rampallian.]
To play rudely and boisterously; to leap and frisk about in play.
To go rapidly and without strained effort.
To win easily; -- often used with over, in sports games; as, the Yankees romped over the Boston Red Sox, 10-2.
Romping \Romp"ing\ (r[o^]mp"[i^]ng), a. Inclined to romp; indulging in romps.
A little romping girl from boarding school.
--W.
Irving.
Wiktionary
n. The act of one who romps. vb. (present participle of romp English)
Usage examples of "romping".
Cape Cod buff, a true-blue Cape Codder, romping and gambolling there annually with his extended family.
Bird house with an army of cats, or gobbling pink victuals, romping in the mud?
And if he were not weary, he was in the thick of his work or resting momentarily from it or sitting soberly beside the scarred head of mother bruin or romping wildly with the cubs.
If Jack and Jerry depended upon the boy for fun and romping which she could not give them, she depended upon him for the very food which sustained her life, and, though her appetite was even more rapidly outgrowing his ability to supply her with provisions, a small oasis is better than a complete desert.
When her lessons were over, however, her ill-humour was generally over too: while riding her spirited pony, or romping with the dogs or her brothers and sister, but especially with her dear brother John, she was as happy as a lark.
Cloud-shadow and scudding sun-burst Were swift on the floor of the sea, And a mad wind was romping its worst, But what was their magic to me?
When she wrung herself from him, she shook her little hand with a rage that quivered through every nerve, and had more of hate than of romping folly or momentary pique in its passion.
Meanwhile the child is out and about somewhere, romping with more of the same.
How happy we are to go romping about the mountains, as infinitely various as creation, till we lose our pointed caps.
The boy, agog from the TV, comes romping in squawking with greed for another new thing that this time just has to be bought, to take him out of this good old world fast gadgets and the clothes to go with them, so he will walk in happiness for all of his days.
Imagine romping with a two-legged patchouli-oiled bear cub every moonlit evening on the carpets she would have woven for his own black tent!
Hank romping outside, happy to be free after the long ride, I carried the essential luggage, and groceries enough for breakfast, into my room.
The jays were going cuckoo over the Cheezie Nuggies, most definitely savoring the zesty cheddary richness, scurrying back to their nests to regurgitate from their crops their loads of dull little seeds and romping expectantly back to my windowsill for a fresh new load of Nug-gies.
So as soon as she was romping around the sands of her pen, he began getting her used to a weight on her back, improvising a harness and a small sandbag at first, then when he discovered where the dragonet harnesses were kept, purloining one and using that.
These made him stop his romping, and caused him to go home sunk in unboyish thought.