LARKING Synonyms: 41 Similar and Opposite Words

larking

verb

present participle of lark

as in dancing

to play and run about happily we would rather lark about in the summer than get part-time jobs

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Recent Examples of larking The Reting Rinpoche dispatched a search team of high lamas, who soon heard about a precocious 2-year-old who enjoyed larking inside chicken coops but also frequently spoke yearningly about making a long journey to Lhasa. — Charlie Campbell, Time, 9 July 2026

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Mizuno herself was a ballet dancer and trained at the Royal Ballet School before dancing with companies including English National Ballet, Dresden Semperoper Ballet and Scottish Ballet.

— Alex Ritman, Variety, 30 July 2026
And going back to movies, the Michael Jackson biopic Michael turned a cinema screening into a concert-like experience, with viewers singing, dancing and transforming the theater into an impromptu dance floor.

— Kian Bakhtiari, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026

Definition of dancing

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Euphoric players cavorting in disbelief, long-suffering fans crumpling to their knees in tears, commentators’ voices cracking at the drama of it all.

— Conor O'Neill, New York Times, 27 July 2026
McGinley photographed models cavorting naked (always naked) through sand dunes in the Mojave Desert and pine forests in Vermont, in a frigid ice cave in upstate New York and perched above a rushing waterfall in Tennessee.

— Chris Wiley, New Yorker, 4 July 2026

Definition of cavorting

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Pogačar answered those questions on Alpe d’Huez, leaping from the peloton at the foot of the climb in a bid to catch the breakaway, three and a half minutes up the road.

— Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 26 July 2026
Jorge Soler was hit by a pitch and Grissom sent a line drive off the right-field wall that eluded a leaping Jordan Walker.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2026

Definition of leaping

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The Knicks had piled up massive scoring margins while romping through the Eastern Conference playoffs, then were just good enough in the two games in San Antonio.

— Brian Mahoney, Chicago Tribune, 9 June 2026
The outcome was one few anticipated, with Gray Davis romping to victory in the Democratic primary, then winning the governorship in a landslide.

— Mark Z. Barabak, Mercury News, 28 Mar. 2026

Definition of romping

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This is a world of movers and shakers, and the plots have a frolicking quality that feels complementary to the Bob & Earl song that inspired the title of the first book, Harlem Shuffle.

— Niela Orr, Vulture, 20 July 2026
Nothing etches itself in your heart quite like the memory of watching a pack of energetic African wild dogs frolicking, a lioness and her cubs dozing on the Kalahari with your own kids tucked in close.

— Kathryn Romeyn, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 June 2026

Definition of frolicking

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The foundation's dogs typically eat about 10 metric tons (22,046 pounds) of dry food each year and spend their summers gamboling in the remnants of snow in the mountains before heading 40 kilometers (25 miles) down winding roads back to the kennel in Barryland.

— ABC News, ABC News, 26 June 2026
Okay, so the cow immediately finds its baby, and then there is a BABY COW gamboling in a field.

— Alice Burton, Vulture, 23 Feb. 2026

Definition of gamboling

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For Cultured, the Angeleno documented a six-week run of partying in New York, skipping from Manhattan gallery openings and readings to Brooklyn magazine launches.

— Harrison Jacobs, ARTnews.com, 30 July 2026
Several providers, including Nomad, let travelers set up local-rate data plans before arrival, which can mean skipping the search for a SIM kiosk altogether.

— Matthew Kayser July 29, Miami Herald, 29 July 2026

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