Synonyms of rollicking

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adjective

ˈrä-li-kiŋ 

1

as in raucous

being rough or noisy in a high-spirited way

reunions with his friends from college were usually rollicking affairs

Synonyms & Similar Words

• raucous
• boisterous
• lively
• rowdy
• rumbustious
• rambunctious
• knockabout
• carnival
• hell-raising
• violent
• wild and woolly
• robustious
• noisy
• riotous
• screaming
• roisterous
• wild
• carnivalesque
• exuberant
• raffish
• turbulent
• uncontrolled
• rampageous
• bubbly
• impassioned
• uninhibited
• high-spirited
• buoyant
• ruffianly
• yelling
• uncontrollable
• effervescent
• sprightly
• vivacious
• tempestuous
• unrestrained
• stormy
• larrikin
• unreserved
• undisciplined
• unmanageable
• unruly
• strident
• rowdyish
• vociferous
• rackety
• headstrong
• howling
• obstreperous
• recalcitrant
• ungovernable
• intractable
• willful
• clamorous
• callithumpian
• loudmouthed
• open-mouthed

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• orderly
• solemn
• somber
• proper
• sedate
• staid
• sober
• dignified
• decorous
• collected
• quiet
• restrained
• composed
• silent
• serene
• placid
• peaceful
• calm
• controlled
• hushed
• tranquil
• noiseless
• seemly
• reasonable
• unruffled
• moderate
• subdued
• soundless
• imperturbable
• inhibited
• repressed
• temperate
• unflappable
• constrained
• phlegmatic
• stolid
• stoic
• depressed
• impassive
• detached
• indifferent
• aloof
• self-controlled

2

as in playful

given to good-natured joking or teasing

a rollicking boy who quickly charms everyone he meets

Synonyms & Similar Words

• playful
• lively
• entertaining
• merry
• amusing
• frolicsome
• mischievous
• goofy
• frisky
• sportive
• energetic
• delightful
• larky
• antic
• happy
• enjoyable
• spirited
• fun
• sportful
• elfish
• lighthearted
• whimsical
• silly
• coltish
• pleasing
• frolic
• fay
• sprightly
• gay
• joking
• spunky
• pleasant
• vivacious
• roguish
• impish
• coy
• teasing
• kittenish
• pleasurable
• rascally
• pixie
• frivolous
• devilish
• jocular
• jocund
• jocose
• trifling
• diverting
• knavish
• prankish
• dabbling
• jesting

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• earnest
• sober
• serious
• responsible
• solemn
• dutiful
• somber
• stern
• grim
• serious-minded
• stolid
• grave
• proper
• formal
• sobersided
• sedate
• stuffy
• staid
• starchy
• decorous
• priggish
• restrained
• no-nonsense
• inhibited
• guarded

rollicking

2 of 3

noun

as in relaxation

activity engaged in to amuse oneself

likes to indulge in mindless rollicking after a day at work in order to relax

Synonyms & Similar Words

• relaxation
• fun
• recreation
• amusement
• entertainment
• play
• enjoyment
• frolic
• dalliance
• sport
• frolicking
• pleasure
• playfulness
• fun and games
• romping
• diversion
• delight
• hobby
• pastime
• mischief
• kick
• hilarity
• devilment
• hobbyhorse
• gamboling
• merrymaking
• lark
• revel
• revelry
• jinks
• merriment
• rollick
• rascality
• spree
• horseplay
• tomfoolery
• wantonness
• buffoonery
• mischievousness
• fling
• devilry
• sportiveness
• friskiness
• roguishness
• knavery
• pleasance
• hob
• binge
• hanky-panky
• impishness
• high jinks
• waggery
• whoopee

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• work
• labor
• drudgery
• duty
• responsibility
• obligation

rollicking

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verb

present participle of rollick

1

as in playing

to engage in activity for amusement

an educator who realized that children need to rollick as well as to study and learn

Synonyms & Similar Words

• playing
• entertaining
• frolicking
• recreating
• amusing
• sporting
• toying
• relaxing
• joking
• romping
• skylarking
• disporting
• cavorting
• dallying
• delighting
• pleasing
• dabbling
• frisking
• resting
• trifling
• diverting
• hanging
• teasing
• gamboling
• fiddling (around)
• idling
• jesting
• dawdling
• loafing
• puttering (around)
• screwing around
• lounging (around or about)
• messing around
• hanging about
• slacking (off)
• bumming (around)
• goldbricking

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• working
• plodding
• laboring
• struggling
• striving
• plugging (away)
• toiling
• sweating
• straining
• drudging
• slaving

2

as in dancing

to play and run about happily

children rollicking during recess

Synonyms & Similar Words

• dancing
• hopping
• leaping
• romping
• capering
• cavorting
• skipping
• frolicking
• tumbling
• gamboling
• larking
• sporting
• frisking
• cutting capers
• reveling
• loping
• roistering
• disporting
• bounding
• springing
• carousing
• prancing
• tripping
• kicking up one's heels
• curvetting
• clowning
• horsing around
• cutting up
• carrying on
• fooling around
• skylarking
• joyriding
• roughhousing
• kiting

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• pouting
• sulking
• stewing
• moping

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of rollicking

Adjective

This might not be saying much, since the entire movie, a rollicking and ruminative look at the director’s childhood and teenage years, could hardly have been made by anyone else. — Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2022

Rodrigo won three in total, actually, including best new artist, capping off a rollicking 15-month stretch. — New York Times, 6 Apr. 2022

Ghost Hounds opened Saturday’s show with a rollicking 45 minute performance showcasing cuts from their latest studio album, September’s A Little Calamity. — Jim Ryan, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2021

In 2009, Christopher McDougall published Born to Run, a rollicking account of the distance running feats of a tribe living in Mexico’s Copper Canyons known as the Tarahumara. — Martin Fritz Huber, Outside Online, 20 Dec. 2019