| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | have fun, make merry |
| Synonyms: | caper, carouse, cavort, cut capers, cut loose, fool around, frisk, gambol, go on a tear, kick up one's heels, lark, let go, let loose, play, prance, raise hell, revel, riot, rollick, romp, sport, spree, whoop it up |
| Main Entry: | fooling |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | joking, tricks |
| Synonyms: | bluffing, buffoonery, clownishness, farce, frolicking, high jinks, horseplay, jesting, joshing, kidding, making light, mockery, nonsense, pretense, roughhouse, roughhousing, rowdiness, sham*, skylarking, spoofing, teasing, trifling |
| Antonyms: | seriousness |
| Main Entry: | carouse |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make merry, often with liquor |
| Synonyms: | booze, drink, frolic, go on a spree, have fun, imbibe, paint the town, paint the town red, play, quaff, raise Cain, revel, riot, roister, wassail, whoop it up |
| Antonyms: | be sad, grieve |
| Main Entry: | dally/dally with |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | have love affair |
| Synonyms: | be insincere with, carry on, cosset, fool around, frivol, frolic, gambol, have a fling, lead on, play around, rollick, romp, tamper, wanton |
| Main Entry: | frisk |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cavort |
| Synonyms: | bounce, caper, dance, frolic, gambol, hop, jump, lark, leap, play, prance, rollick, romp, skip, sport, trip |
| Main Entry: | gambol |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | tumble playfully |
| Synonyms: | bound, caper, carry on, cavort, cut, cut a caper, cut loose, fool around, frisk, frolic, hop, horse around, jump, kibitz around, kick up one's heels, lark, leap, play, prance, revel, roister, rollick, romp, skip, sport, spring, whoop it up |
| Notes: | a gamble (noun) is a risky act, venture, bet, or wager - to gamble (verb) is to take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome; a gambol (noun) a skipping or leaping about in frolic - to gambol (verb) is to dance and skip about in play or to frolic |
| Main Entry: | joke |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | kid, tease |
| Synonyms: | banter, chaff, deceive, deride, fool, frolic, fun, gambol, horse around, jape, jest, jive, jolly, josh, kid around, laugh, make merry, mock, needle, play, play the clown, play tricks, poke fun, pull one's leg, pun, put on, quip, rag, revel, rib, ridicule, roast, spoof, sport, taunt, trick, wisecrack |
| Antonyms: | be serious |
| Main Entry: | masquerade |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | disguise |
| Synonyms: | attitudinize, dissemble, dissimulate, frolic, impersonate, mask, pass as, pass for, pass off, pose, posture, pretend, revel |
| Antonyms: | reveal, unmask |
| Main Entry: | play |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | have fun |
| Synonyms: | amuse oneself, be life of party, caper, carouse, carry on, cavort, clown, cut capers, cut up, dally, dance, disport, divert, entertain oneself, fool around, frisk, frolic, gambol, go on a spree, horse around, idle away, joke, jump, kibitz, kick up heels, let go, let loose, let one's hair down, make merry, mess around, rejoice, revel, romp, show off, skip, sport, toy, trifle |
| Antonyms: | work |