frolic

It’s a rare chance for the kids in this neighbourhood to play outside together, in a space big enough to frolic and safe from traffic.

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026

This was not the barefoot frolic I knew from picnics, not the game of lazy parabolas.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025

Together, the fast pals frolic around the city until one fateful day Robot gets stranded at Coney Island at the end of summer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2024

There, the boys frolic and dream amid cinder block walls.

From New York Times ● Apr. 18, 2024

COLIC: colicky frolic: frolicked, frolicker, frolicking GARLIC: garlicky mimic: mimicked, mimicking panic: panicked, panicking, panicky picnic: picnicked, picnicker, picnicking POLITICS: politicker, politicking traffic: trafficked, trafficker, trafficking playwright.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

Yuletide frolics are a key part of that strategy.

From BBC ● Dec. 21, 2025

Most of the country frolics into fall with hot spiced drinks and cute chunky sweaters, but in L.A., we’re forced to cosplay the season.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2024

In it, a mermaid looks at the Atlantic through a telescope as a seal frolics near her fin.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 21, 2019

And thus do the fashion week frolics — or follies, depending on your point of view — begin: in the wake of the U.S.

From New York Times ● Sep. 5, 2018

“I don’t mean to act any more after this time. I’m getting too old for such things,” observed Meg, who was as much a child as ever about ‘dressing-up’ frolics.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

"It's getting beyond a joke for a small country town," Peter Hainsworth, 81, told AFP as tourists frolicked on the rolling hills nearby.

From Barron's ● Apr. 30, 2026

The girls, who frolicked in the championship confetti after UCLA’s national championship win in Long Beach, are experienced international travelers, Speraw assured.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2024

In Chicago, people who would normally be in winter gear to fight off the city’s famously bitter winter winds instead frolicked around Lake Michigan’s shores in light jackets or even shorts and T-shirts.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 25, 2024

These huge, nearly grown cats frolicked, racing beside our ATV as we drove the fence line and sparring on their hind legs—behavior I’d seen only in wild tigers.

From National Geographic ● Nov. 2, 2023

So he sat in his father’s study as the sea breeze frolicked somewhere else, and as Lizzie Bright was probably flying with the Tripps, and read propositions.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt

We would be sipping ice-cold spritzes at cafés overlooking the Mediterranean, frolicking down cobblestone streets lined with charming boutiques, and marveling at the frescoes and marble sculptures adorning grand cathedrals.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026

Opening credits of Warner Bros.’ 1990s sitcom “Friends,” featured the then 20-something cast members frolicking in a fountain near the center of the lot.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026

Some videos show puppies frolicking or close-ups of squirrels, others stream loops of squishy toys enjoyed by other animals or humans.

From BBC ● Apr. 9, 2026

There are light, fond echoes of François Truffaut’s frolicking ode to cinematic fakery “Day for Night” and Ingmar Bergman’s bumpy ride on memory road “Wild Strawberries.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2025

These weren’t the frolicking animals he’d seen elsewhere in Regalia, these were words.

From "Gregor the Overlander" by Suzanne Collins