enjoy oneself

Take personal pleasure

To enjoy oneself is to have a good time, to experience pleasure or satisfaction in what one is doing.

The reflexive form emphasizes personal experience rather than enjoyment of something external: Did you enjoy yourself at the party?

Go out and enjoy yourself.

The phrase often appears in wishes or commands encouraging someone to have fun.

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party · life of the party · play · cut loose · savor · live it up · living the dream · rollicking · have a good time · gallivant · let loose · let your hair down · blow off steam · dance · whoop it up · take pleasure · rejoice · make merry

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Opposites
experiential pleasure

enjoy oneselfsuffer

Experience pain or distress

endure · languish · agonize · hurt · be bored

emotional state during activity

enjoy oneselfgrin and bear it

Endure hardship without complaint

put up with it · go through the motions · tough it out · muddle through · soldier on

Family

enjoy, enjoys, enjoyment, enjoyed, enjoyable, joyous, enjoying, unenjoyable

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G