Frolic

Definition: Frolic

Frolic

Noun

1. Gay or light-hearted recreational activity for diversion or amusement; "it was all done in play"; "their frolic in the surf threatened to become ugly".

Verb

1. Play boisterously; "The children frolicked in the garden"; "the gamboling lambs in the meadows"; "The toddlers romped in the palyroom".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "frolic" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Computing

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Frolic

Amusement

Fun, frolic, merriment, jollity; joviality, jovialness; heyday; laughter; jocosity, jocoseness; drollery, buffoonery, tomfoolery; mummery, pleasantry; wit; quip, quirk.

Amuse oneself, game; play a game, play pranks, play tricks; sport, disport, toy, wanton, revel, junket, feast, carouse, banquet, make merry, drown care; drive dull care away; frolic, gambol, frisk, romp; caper; dance; (leap); keep up the ball; run a rig, sow one's wild oats, have one's fling, take one's pleasure; paint the town red; see life; desipere in loco, play the fool.

Crosswords: Frolic

I swim with the plants and frolic with the sperm. (Habitat; writing credit: Rene Daalder)

Crazy Frolic (1953)

French Fried Frolic (1949)

Frontier Frolic (1946)

Swing Frolic (1942)

A Ziegfeld Midnight Frolic (1929)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• A Frolic of His Own (reference)

• A Great Man: A Frolic (Collected Works of Arnold Bennett) (reference)

• Fun and Frolic With Indian Ball Team (reference)

• Girlfriends Get Together 2003 Block Calendar: Food, Frolic, and Fun Times (reference)

• Inside the Third House: A Veteran Lobbyist Takes a 50-Year Frolic Through Texas Politics (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Serenity Qigong: The Crane Frolic (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Frolic Through the Park (reference)

• The Cornshucker's Frolic, Vol. 1 (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Monument at Cherbourg, France, erected to his memory by the Officers and Crew of the U.S. Steamer Frolic. He had died at Cherbourg on 14 October 1865, at the age of 27. Photographed circa the early 1900s. Credit: NAVY.

Photographed at Nassau, Bahamas, in 1863. After capture in 1864, she became USS Advance, and was later renamed Frolic. See Photo # NH 95662-KN for another version of this photograph. Credit: NAVY.

Engraving by Spencer, depicting both sides of the gold medal awarded by the U.S. Congress to Captain Jacob Jones, USN, in honor of his victory in the 18 October 1812 action between USS Wasp and HMS Frolic. Credit: NAVY.

Engagement between the Wasp and Frolic (a running fight). Credit: Library of Congress.

Ward & Vokes in a brand new frolic The head waiters. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The frolic of paradise was in her eyes.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Albanian

festim (celebration, do, festival, jollification, merrymaking, regale, revel, solemnization), zbavitem (amuse, disport, disport oneself, entertain, lark, lark about), rreng (fraud, hoax, hokey-pokey, kicker, practical joke, prank, rig, trick), plot gjallëri (ebullient, effervescent, frolicsome, live), lodra, i gëzueshëm (cheerful, cheery, festal, festive, frolicsome, gleeful, hilarious, joyful, mirthful), argëtues (amusing, diverting, humorous, jocose, recreative, rollicking, voluptuous). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مزحة (banter, caper, game, jest, jocularity, joke, prank, rag, raillery, romp, trick, waggery), ‏مزح (banter, banting, chaff, fool, fun, in play, joke, kid, lark, make fun of, rag, skylark, trifle, waggle), ‏مرح (airiness, airy, be merry, blithe, breezy, bright, buoyancy, buoyant, cheerful, cheerfulness, cheering, chirpy, exult, facetious, festive, fresh, frisk, frisky, frolicsome, fun, gaiety, gay, glee, gleeful, have fun, hilarious, hilarity, jaunty, jocose, jocosity, jocund, jolly, jovial, joviality, joy, joyful, joyfulness, joyous, kittenish, lark, light, lightsome, lively, make merry, merriment, merry, merry making, mirth, mirthful, perkiness, perky, playful, playfulness, playing, rejoice, rollick, romp, sportive, sprightly, sunny, vivacious, vivacity, what fun, winsome), ‏حفلة سمر (binge, camp-fire), ‏دعابة (good humor, good humour, humor, humour, jest, jesting, joke, joking, pleasantries). (various references)

Bulgarian 

шеговит (facetious, humorous, jesting, jocose, joky, macaronic, merry, pleasant, prankish, quizzical, sportful, tricksy, waggish), веселя се (junket, revel, rollick, spree), веселие (cheer, exhilaration, glee, hilarity, jollity, junket, lark, merriment, merrymaking, mirth, revel), лудуване (scamper), игрив (blithe, coltish, frisky, frolicsome, gamesome, gay, jocose, kittenish, mischievous, monkeyish, pert, playful, skittish, sportful, sportive, tricksy, wanton). (various references)

Chinese 

喜跳. (various references)

Czech

skotaèit (cavort, Frisk, gambol, romp), rozpustilost (devilry, wickedness). (various references)

Dutch

schalks (airy-fairy, frolicsome, petulant), ondeugend (airy-fairy, frolicsome, petulant), dartel (airy-fairy, frolicsome, mischievous, petulant, playful). (various references)

Esperanto

petoli, petola (frolicsome, petulant). (various references)

Faeroese

kátur (adroit, agile, airy-fairy, alert, brisk, cheerful, frolicsome, gay, keen, merry, petulant). (various references)

Finnish

kisailla (play), kirmata, ilakoida (be in high spirits, make merry), hulluttelu (clowning, folly, gay pranks). (various references)

French

batifoler (Frisk), s'amuser, gambader (Frisk, frolic about). (various references)

German

scherz (fun, gag, hoax, jest, joke, kidding, leg pull, play, pleasantry, spoof, tomfoolery, yoke). (various references)

Greek 

ευθυμία (cheer, conviviality, festivity, gaiety, gayness, glee, hilarity, humor, humour, jollity, merriment, merrymaking, mirth, resilience), διασκέδαση (amusement, diversion, divertissement, enjoyment, entertainment, fun, jollification, junketing, lark, merriment, merrymaking, party, pastime, recreation, shindig, sport). (various references)

Hebrew 

לפזז (cavort, hop, leap, prance), לעלוז (be exult, be merry, rejoice), ל�"שתובב (misbehave, romp, skylark), עליז (blithe, cheerful, festal, frisky, frolicsome, gay, hilarious, jocose, jocund, jolly, joyful, light hearted, merry, mirthful, playful, sprightly). (various references)

Hungarian

pajkoskodás (devilry, deviltry), mókázás (pantaloonery, rollicking, waggishness). (various references)

Italian

cattivo (airy-fairy, bad, evil, foul, frolicsome, ill, ill natured, mad, malicious, miserable, nasty, naughty, perverse, petulant, poor, spiteful, unkind, vicious, wicked). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

戯れる (to be amused with something, to frolic, to play, to sport). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たわむれる (to be amused, to be playful, to flirt with, to frolic, to gambol, to joke, to play, to sport), ざれる (to be amused, to be playful, to flirt with, to frolic, to gambol, to joke, to play, to sport), ふざける (to flirt, to frolic, to gambol, to joke, to make fun of, to romp), じゃれる (to be amused, to be playful, to flirt with, to frolic, to gambol, to joke, to play, to sport), はしゃぐ (to be in high spirits, to frolic, to make merry). (various references)

Korean 

장난침. (various references)

Norwegian

munterhet, boltre seg. (various references)

Pig Latin

olicfray

Portuguese

fazertravessuras, fazer travessuras, folgazão (canty, from, gamester, jolly, merry, rakish, rollicking, sportful, sporting, sportive, volatile), homem-rã (frogman), gracejo (banter, fun, gag, jest, jocosity, joke, pleasantry, raillery, Sally, sport, waggery), garotar, traquinar (frisky, romp), travesso (chaffy, elfish, elvish, mischievous, playful, prase, tricksy, wanton, wheeler dealer), traquinas (elicit, elysium, frolicsome, monkey, petulant), alegria (bliss, cheer, conviviality, delight, enjoyment, exhilaration, exultant, felicity, gaiety, gladness, glee, happiness, Hill, jocularity, jocundity, jollity, jovian, joy, joyless, jubilant, jubilee, lighthouse, merriment, mirth, pleasure, rejoicing, sunshine, vivacity, whoopee), divertimento (amusement, distraction, enkindle, entertainment, fun, gambol, game, jollification, merriment, merry making, pastime, play, recreation, revel, skittle, sport, treat), brincar (coquet, fool, Frisk, fun, game, have a good time, jape, jest, joke, Josh, kid, lark, play, romp, toy, trifle), brincalhão (frisky, gamesome, hoity toity, jesting, jesuit, jocular, joker, joky, kittenish, larmier, mischievous, playful, prankish, rollicking, sportful, sporting, sportive, tricksy, waggish, wanton), brincadeira (badinage, banter, dalliance, diversion, drollery, escape, Frisk, fun, gag, gambol, game, gibe, gird, hoax, humor, humour, jape, jest, jibe, joke, joker, joky, Josh, lark, play, pleasantry, practical joke, prank, raillery, rig, sport, waggery), animação (animation, buoyancy, flush, freshener, ginger, life, liveliness, vitality, vivacity, warmth, zest), divertir-se (dally, disposable, enjoy, feast, flirt, fun, funambulist, gambol, jollify, lark, merry-make, move away, play, recreate, wassail). (various references)

Romanian

face giumbuşlucuri, se veseli (make merry, rollick), distracţie (absence-mindedness, amusement, dalliance, distraction, diversion, do, drollery, entertainment, fun, jest, jocularity, jollity, merriment, merry making, pastime, recreation, revel, skittle, sport, sporting), glumã (chaff, farce, fun, gag, game, jape, jest, joke, lark, play, prank, sport, trick, wheeze, wisecrack, wit, witticism), haz (fun, gracefulness, humor, humour, jocularity, salt, spicery, sport, wit), juca (act, dance, enact, gamble, gambol, game, hazard, interpret, perform, play, present, produce, put on, sport, stake, trifle, wanton), petrece (accompany, carouse, celebrate, end, feast, go with, happen, junket, live, make good cheer, pass, revel, spend, spree, suffer, undergo), petrecere (amusement, at home, bacchanalia, blow out, bout, carnival, carousal, conviviality, diversion, do, entertainment, feast, festival, festivity, fling, gaiety, game, garden party, jamboree, jollity, junket, merry making, party, spree), capricios (arbitrary, capricious, cranky, crotchety, difficult, fanciful, fancy, fantastic, fantastical, fickle, fitful, fractious, freakish, Froward, humoursome, peevish, perverse, vagarious, wanton, wayward, whimsical, whimsy), se distra (amuse, dally, enjoy oneself, entertain oneself, have a good time, have fun, rejoice, revel, sport), zburdalnic (frisky, frolicsome, hoity toity, larky, sportive, sprightly), se zbengui (dally, Frisk, gambol), sindrofie (spree), vesel (blithe, blithesome, boon, breezy, bright, cheerful, cheerfully, cheery, chirpy, convivial, crank, debonair, elastic, feastful, festal, frisky, frolicsome, full-blooded, gaily, gamesome, gay, genial, glad, gladsome, gleeful, happy, hilarious, in full feather, in high feather, jauntily, jaunty, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyfully, joyous, lively, mellow, merry, mirthful, playful, pleasant, riant, saucy, sprightly, tails up, wanton), zbengui, zbenguialã (fiskiness, Frisk, frolicking, gambol, gamboling, riot), zburda (caper, Frisk, gambol, romp), zburdãlnicie (friskiness, gamboling, mischief, obstreperousness, prank, romp, sportiveness, spree, wantonness), sãri (Bob, bounce, bound, break, caper, dance, dap, gambol, hop, jump, lark, leap, leave out, lop, lope, Miss, rebound, skip, spirt, splash, spout, spring, spurt, start). (various references)

Russian 

резвый (frisky, wanton), резвость (friskiness, spree), шалость (caper, dalliance, devilments, devilry, prank, waggery, wantonness), веселый (blithe, blithesome, breezy, canty, cheerful, cheery, chirpy, convivial, corky, debonair, exhilarated, exhilarating, festive, gamesome, gay, gleeful, hilarious, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, light hearted, lightsome, lively, merry, mirthful, perky, playful, pleasant, set up, sportful, sportive, sprightly), проказничать. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

veseo (blithe, blithesome, canty, cheerful, exuberant, festive, gay, happy, jocose, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, lighthearted, lightsome, lively, merry, mirthful, perky, rejoicing, rollicking), veselje (celebration, festivity, hilarity, jollification, joy, merriment, merrymaking, rollick), veseliti se (be happy, rejoice). (various references)

Spanish

fiesta (carnival, celebration, convocation, do, feast, feast day, festival, fete, feteday, gala, holiday, junket, leap day, party, shindig, shindy), juguetear (Frisk, gambol, monkey, play about, play around, rollick, toy, wanton), juego alegre, divertirse (amuse oneself, enjoy, enjoy oneself, fool around, have a good time, kick about, make merry, make whoopee, play about, regale, sport, toy), descansar en (flop, flummox, oar, seat on). (various references)

Swedish

upptåg (antic, antics, caper, cod, Dido, escapade, Frisk, fun, gag, gambol, high jinks, jinks, joke, lark, practical joke, prank, rag, spree), springa och leka, sprallig (frisky, frolicsome, slaphappy), skutta (bound, flip, gambol, hop, jump, leap, lope, scamper, skip, spring), skoj (caper, chaff, cheating, fraud, frisk, fun, gag, gyp, high jinks, humbug, humbuggery, imposture, jape, jest, jesting, joke, Josh, jugglery, kidding, lark, leg pull, sham, shenanigan, tomfoolery, trickery), munter (blithe, breezy, cheerful, cheery, frolicsome, gay, gleeful, gleesome, hilarious, jocose, jocund, jolly, merry, mirthful, sprightly), lekfull (frisky, frolicsome, gamesome, kittenish, playful, rompish, skittish, sportive), ha upptåg för sig (lark). (various references)

Thai

เล่นสนุกสนาน, ความร่าเริง (jocundity, lightness). (various references)

Turkish

oyun (act, acting, canard, dance, device, game, hoax, performance, play, presentment, representation, spectacle, sport, stage play, trick, wheeze), neşe (brightness, buoyancy, cheer, cheerfulness, cheeriness, esprit, exhilaration, gaiety, glee, hilarity, humor, humour, jocundity, jolliness, jollity, joviality, joy, merriment, mirth, pleasantry, raciness, rejoicing, spirit, sprightliness, sunshine, vivacity), muziplik (caper, Dido, fooling, hoax, joke, lark, prank, rag, teasing, trick), gülüp oynamak (rollick), gülüp oynama, eğlenmek (amuse oneself, be amused, disport oneself, fool, get a ball out of smth., go on a spree, have a good time, have fun, laugh away, make fun, make merry, make merry over, recreate oneself, revel, rollick, sport), eğlence (amusement, bash, beano, blow out, carnival, conviviality, distraction, diversion, entertainment, festivity, fete, fun, gag, gaiety, high jinks, jamboree, jollification, jolliness, jollity, merriment, merrymaking, party, pastime, play, plaything, racket, recreation, recreational, rejoicing, relaxation, revel, saturnalia, setout, sport). (various references)

Ukrainian

гратися (dandle, play, sport, toy, wanton), веселощі (cheer, gaiety, gambol, glee, joyfulness, merriment, merry making, mirth, racket, revelry, shindig, shindy), веселити. (various references)

Vietnamese 

vui nhộn (hilarious, jaunty, rollicking), sự nô đùa (frisk, play, sport), sự đùa giỡn (play), hay nô đùa (frolicky, frolicsome), cuộc vui nhộn sự vui đùa. (various references)

Welsh

pranc (prank), drwg (bad, evil, frolicsome, harm, hurt, miserable, nasty, naughty, petulant, poor, wicked), campio (frisk, gambol). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "frolic": frolicked, frolicking, frolicky, frolics, frolicsome. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Frolic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Farooqi, floric, folik, foril, Forli, freilach, Frohlen, Frohlich, frol, frole, frolick, frolie, frollic, Frolov, rolic. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: coif, coil, coir, corf, fico, filo, flic, floc, foci, foil, loci, roil, rolf.

-3 letters: col, cor, fil, fir, for, fro, oil, orc, rif, roc.

-4 letters: if, li, lo, of, or.

+1 letter: fluoric, frolics.

+2 letters: coliform, firelock, flockier, forcible, forcibly, fornical, frolicky, prolific, trifocal.

+3 letters: calorific, coliforms, colorific, cornfield, factorial, falciform, firelocks, floristic, flouncier, fluorotic, folkloric, formulaic, fortalice, francolin, frolicked, fumarolic, inflictor, microfilm, orificial, trifocals.

+4 letters: calciferol, childproof, clofibrate, cornfields, cumuliform, factorials, falconries, florigenic, follicular, fortalices, fractional, francolins, frictional, frolicking, frolicsome, inflictors, luciferous, microfilms, microflora, overfacile, profligacy, reflection.

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