Synonyms of frolicking

frolicking 1 of 2

noun

as in relaxation

activity engaged in to amuse oneself

a night of frolicking by three soldiers just before they are sent to the war zone

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

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

frolicking

2 of 2

verb

present participle of frolic

1

as in dancing

to play and run about happily

scores of swimmers were frolicking in the ocean surf along the beach

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• pouting
• sulking
• stewing
• moping

• pouting
• sulking
• stewing
• moping

2

as in playing

to engage in activity for amusement

he would rather frolic than do yard work any day of the week

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

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

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