frolic

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025

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

From New York Times ● Apr. 18, 2024

Elementary-age viewers flock to Kaven’s channel to watch him navigate new games on Roblox, frolic through lavish Disney vacations and unbox surprise egg toys — entertainment most teen and adult observers find baffling but anodyne.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 22, 2024

With this multitude of bright blossoms and fragrant flowers surrounding me, I can almost forget my drippy sinuses and frolic in appreciation of the season.

From Salon ● Mar. 21, 2024

Sensible that I should speak and join the frolic, I opined that I should like to hear their especial call, having never heard human imitate that animal’s cry.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

There are spats and hugs, frolics and bonding, and not much thrust to the tale.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 2025

Clue: It begins with B and rhymes with frolics.

From BBC ● Dec. 26, 2023

Beatrix Potter’s tales about the frolics and misadventures of Peter Rabbit, Squirrel Nutkin, Jemima Puddle-Duck and other animals have charmed children around the globe for well over a century.

From New York Times ● Apr. 26, 2023

The hard black seeds that passed rapidly through the guts of those big, hairy beasts likely found good places to grow in the wakes of their canopy-opening frolics.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 14, 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

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

At the Winnick Family Children’s Zoo in Los Angeles, Maury Laham, 71, stood at the railing of the sea lion exhibit as two sleek animals frolicked in the rushing water below.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2023

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

They frolicked around, slamming into each other, breaking fortifications, and generally having an excellent time.

From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan

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

Used primarily as an office building, its ornate design, carvings and sculptures — including a ground floor fountain with frolicking bronze youths — hadn’t invited much public attention or appreciation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 28, 2026

Before that he was a young boy, born on Halloween, frolicking among unmarked headstones as the son of funerary masons.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025

Oregon officials have pushed back forcefully, flooding their own social media with images of colorful cafe tables, sun-drenched farmers markets, rose gardens in full bloom and parks bursting with children, families and frolicking dogs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2025

I got to know the families, too, with their frolicking babes and grumpy grandparents, especially since some returned year after year.

From "Willodeen" by Katherine Applegate