amuse oneself

For anyone who needs a refresher on what it means “to frolic,” according to good old Merriam-Webster dictionary it means “to play and run about happily,” as well as “to amuse oneself: make merry.”

It didn’t help when a white senior editor at the paper who had himself been a correspondent in Africa tried to encourage me by saying that between the episodic hard news provided by the occasional conflict or coup, one could amuse oneself there scribbling postcards about the exotic and primitive, or what he called “oogah-boogah”.

One seemed to have nothing to do but to amuse oneself then, and it was so easy to amuse oneself that one never grew tired of doing so.

Armand de Bourbon, Prince de Conti, formerly a generous patron of the drama and of Moli�re, but now, for some time past, a Jansenist of the most advanced type, published a similar work, and gave it as his opinion that a troupe of actors was "a troupe of devils," and to amuse oneself at the play was to "delight the demon."

Asolare—“to disport in the open air, amuse oneself at random.”