• a b
  • Log In
  • Home
  • Vocabulary
  • Writing
  • Mobile apps
  • Help
  • ©2017 EdictFree.
    All Rights Reserved.
Vocabulary
  • Topic
Help
  • Contact Us
  • Privacy policy
Mobile apps
  • Android
  • Ios
Bright
  • Home
  • Vocabulary
    • Topic
  • Writing

Free Online Dictionary

The home of living English, with more than 820,000 words, meanings and phrases
All Properties select
District 1 District 2 District 7 More

Longman Dictionary English

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishfrolicfrol‧ic1 /ˈfrɒlɪk $ ˈfrɑː-/ verb (frolicked, frolicking) [intransitive] written PLAY A GAME OR SPORTto play in an active happy way Lambs frolicked in the next field.→ See Verb table
Examples from the Corpus
frolic• Others freak out and enjoy the chance to frolic.• This involves spending a lot of time in the sun by the pool listening to girlish giggles as they frolic around.• The children continued to frolic in the street, running up to the Metropolitans, taunting them, and then running away.• One reveller was already pouring bubble bath into a huge hot tub so he and his partner could frolic in the suds.• They chase and frolic, tarry, turn loops; they make croaks, high cries, and rattling sounds.
frolicfrolic2 noun [countable, uncountable] written PLAY A GAME OR SPORTa fun enjoyable game or activity Everyone joined in the Saturday night frolics.
Examples from the Corpus
frolic• Indeed, both communities had every intention of using the Falls as a backdrop for fun and frolic.• The days of fun and frolic were gone for good.• But she was not abdicating responsibility for a fortnight of fun and frolics.• Of recent years, the fair had been lengthened into a fortnight-long frolic called Edwardian Days, finishing two weeks before Christmas.• But even worse was the now-identified list of twenty whose recorded frolics were missing.• Now, however, comes the news of Fergie's frolics.• The season of snow frolics, skiing and sledding got a later start than usual this year.• When I was young the money the tradesmen gave went to augment the beer-money for the frolic.• Apart from the frolics of the children on the boulders below them the scene was a quiet one.
Origin frolic1 (1500-1600) Dutch vroolijk “happy”
ldoceonline.com
Word of day

May 13, 2025

laundry basket
noun
Ad
Mobile apps

Browse our dictionary apps today and ensure you are never again lost for words.

Follow
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
Find Out More
  • Contact us
  • Privacy policy
Copyright EdictFree.Com All Rights Reserved.
Design by EdictFree
Copyright EdictFree.Com All Rights Reserved.
Design by EdictFree