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amusement, entertainment; diversion, divertissement; reaction, solace; pastime, passetemps, sport; labor of love; pleasure., relaxation., fun, frolic, merriment, jollity; joviality, jovialness; heyday; laughter; jocosity, jocoseness; drollery, buffoonery, tomfoolery; mummery, pleasantry; wit; quip, quirk., giggle, titter, snigger, crow, cheer, chuckle, shout; horse laugh, hearty laugh; guffaw; burst of laughter, fit of laughter, shout of laughter, roar of laughter, peal of laughter; cachinnation; Kentish fire; tiger., play; game, game at romps; gambol, romp, prank, antic, rig, lark, spree, skylarking, vagary, monkey trick, gambade, fredaine, escapade, echappee, bout, espieglerie; practical joke (ridicule)., dance; hop, reel, rigadoon, saraband, hornpipe, bolero; minuet, waltz, polka; fandango, cancan; bayadere; breakdown, cake-walk, cornwallis [U.S.]; nautch-girl; shindig [U.S.]; skirtdance, stag dance, Virginia reel; galop, galopade; jig, fling, strathspey; allemande; gavot, gavotte; mazurka, morisco, morris dance; quadrille; country dance; cotillon, Sir Roger de Coverley; ballet (drama); ball; bal, balmasque, balcostume; masquerade; Terpsichore., festivity, merrymaking; party (social gathering); bat [U.S.], bum [U.S.], bust, clambake [U.S.], donation party [U.S.], fish fry [U.S.], jamboree, kantikoy, nautch, randy, squantum [U.S.], tear , Turnerfest, yule log; fete, festival, gala, ridotto; revels, revelry, reveling; carnival, brawl, saturnalia, high jinks; feast, banquet (food); regale, symposium, wassail; carouse, carousal; jollification, junket, wake, picnic, fete champetre, regatta, field day; treat; block party; company picnic., round of pleasures, dissipation, a short life and a merry one, racketing, holiday making., rejoicing; jubilee (celebration)., bonfire, fireworks, feu-de-joie, firecracker., holiday; gala day, red letter day, play day; high days and holidays; high holiday, Bank holiday; May day, Derby day; Saint Monday, Easter Monday, Whit Monday; Bairam; wayz-goos, bean feast; Arbor Day, Declaration Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Memorial Day, Thanksgiving Day; Mardi gras, mi-careme, feria, fiesta., place of amusement, theater; concert room, ballroom, assembly room; music hall., park, plaisance; arbor; garden (horticulture); pleasure ground, playground, cricketground, croquet ground, archery ground, hunting ground; tennis court, racket court; bowling alley, green alley; croquet lawn, rink, glaciarum, skating rink; roundabout, merry-go-round; swing; montagne Russe; amusement park; gameroom., game of chance, game of skill., athletic sports, gymnastics; archery, rifle shooting; tournament, pugilism (contention); sports; horse racing, the turf; aquatics; skating, sliding; cricket, tennis, lawn tennis; hockey, football, rackets, fives, trap bat and ball, battledore and shuttlecock, la grace; pall-mall, tipcat, croquet, golf, curling, pallone, polo; tent pegging, tilting at the ring, quntain, greasy pole; quoits, discus; rounders, lacrosse; tobogganing, water polo; knurr and spell., leapfrog, hop skip and jump; French and English, tug of war; blindman's bluff, hunt the slopper, hide and seek, kiss in the ring; snapdragon; cross questions and crooked answers.; crisscross, hopscotch, jackstones, mumblety-peg, pingpong, pushball, shinney, shinny, tag, billiards, pool, pyramids, bagatelle; bowls, skittles, ninepins, kain, American bowls; tenpins [U.S.], bowling, tivoli., cards, card games; whist, rubber; round game; loo, cribbage, besique, euchre, drole, ecarte, picquet, allfours, quadrille, ombeer, reverse, Pope Joan, commit; boston, boaston; vingtun; quinze, thirgy-one, put, speculation, connections, brag, cassino, lottery, commerce, snip-snap- snoren, lift smoke, blind hookey, Polish bank, Earl of Coventry, Napoleon, patience, pairs; banker; blind poker, draw poker, straight poker, stud poker; bluff, bridge, bridge whist; lotto, monte, nap, penny-ante, poker, reversis, squeezers, old maid, fright, beggar-my-neighbor; baccarat., ace, king, queen, knave, jack, joker; trump., bower; right bower, left bower; dummy; jackpot; deck., flush, full-house, straight; misere, chess, draughts, checkers, checquers, backgammon, dominos, merelles, nine men's morris, go bang, solitaire; game of fox and goose; loto, morra; gambling (chance)., toy, plaything, bauble; doll (puppet ); teetotum; knickknack (trifle); magic lantern (show); peep show, puppet show, raree show, gallanty show; toy shop; "quips and cranks and wanton wiles, nods and becks and wreathed smiles" [Milton]., sportsman, gamester, reveler; master of ceremonies, master of revels; arbiter elegantiarum; arbiter bibendi, archer, fan [U.S.], toxophilite, turfman.

amuse, entertain, divert, enliven; tickle the fancy; titillate, raise a smile, put in good humor; cause laughter, create laughter, occasion laughter, raise laughter, excite laughter, produce laughter, convulse with laughter; set the table in a roar, be the death of one., recreate, solace, cheer, rejoice; please; interest; treat, regale., amuse oneself, game; play a game, play pranks, play tricks; sport, disport, toy, wanton, revel, junket, feast, carouse, banquet, make merry, drown care; drive dull care away; frolic, gambol, frisk, romp; caper; dance (leap); keep up the ball; run a rig, sow one's wild oats, have one's fling, take one's pleasure; paint the town red; see life; desipere in loco, play the fool., make holiday, keep holiday; go a Maying., while away the time, beguile the time; kill time, dally., smile, simper, smirk; grin, grin like a Cheshire cat; mock, laugh in one's sleeve; laugh, laugh outright; giggle, titter, snigger, crow, snicker, chuckle, cackle; burst out, burst into a fit of laughter; shout, split, roar., shake one's sides, split one's sides, hold both one's sides; roar with laughter, die with laughter.

amusing, entertaining, diverting; recreative, lusory; pleasant (pleasing); laughable (ludicrous); witty; festive, festal; jovial, jolly, jocund, roguish, rompish; playful, playful as a kitten; sportive, ludibrious., amused; "pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw" [Pope]; laughing ; risible; ready to burst, ready to split, ready to die with laughter; convulsed with laughter.

"on the light fantastic toe" [Milton], at play, in sport.

wit, humor, wittiness; attic wit, attic salt; atticism; salt, esprit, point, fancy, whim, drollery, pleasantry., farce, buffoonery, fooling, tomfoolery; shenanigan(s) [U.S.], harlequinade [more]; broad farce, broad humor; fun, espieglerie; vis comica., jocularity; jocosity, jocoseness; facetiousness; waggery, waggishness; whimsicality; comicality., banter, badinage, retort, repartee, smartness, ready wit, qui-pro-quo; ridicule., jest, joke; facetiae, quips and cranks; capital joke; canorae nugae; standing jest, standing joke, conceit, quip, quirk, crank, quiddity, concetto, plaisanterie, brilliant idea; merry thought, bright thought, happy thought; sally; flash of wit, flash of merriment; scintillation; mot, mot pour rire; witticism, smart saying, bon-mot,jeu d'esprit,epigram; jest book; dry joke quodlibet, cream of the jest., word-play, jeu de mots; play of words, play upon words; pun, punning; double entente (ambiguity); quibble, verbal qubibble; conundrum (riddle); anagram, acrostic, double acrostic, trifling, idle conceit, turlupinade., old joke, Joe Miller.

joke, jest, crack a joke, cut jokes; perpetrate a joke; perpetrate a pun; make fun of, make merry with; set the table in a roar (amuse)., retort; banter (ridicule); ridentem dicere verum; joke at one's expense.

witty, attic; quick-witted, nimble-witted; smart; jocular, jocose, humorous; facetious, waggish, whimsical; kidding, joking, puckish; playful; merry and wise; pleasant, sprightly, spirituel, sparkling, epigrammatic, full of point, ben trovato; comic.

in joke, in jest, in sport, in play.