frolicking
Joyfully bounding about
Frolicking is playful, carefree activity—running, jumping, or moving about in a lively, happy way.
The word suggests lighthearted abandon, often outdoors: children frolicking in the sprinklers, lambs frolicking in the meadow.
It carries a wholesome, innocent quality that makes it sound slightly old-fashioned or deliberately whimsical when applied to adults.
Frolicking is the present participle of frolic, used as a verb or gerund.
Playing with energetic movement
- boundingMoving by leaps
- leapingSpringing into air
- prancingShowy high-stepping movement
- skippingRhythmic hopping locomotion
gamboling · cavorting · springing · bouncing · darting · scampering · dashing · capering
Freed from a load
- light-heartedCheerful and carefree
- blitheCheerfully indifferent
- insouciantCarefree and unconcerned
- untroubledFree from disturbance
easygoing · spontaneous · unconstrained · liberated · unfettered · carefree · innocent · gleeful
Life's earliest phase
- childrenYoung human beings
- kidsYoung human offspring
- toddlersVery young children
- youngstersPeople not yet adult
innocence · schoolyard · playtime · giggles · laughter · exuberance · playmates · carefree
Playful, spirited activity
- tumbleUncontrolled rolling descent
- chaseRapid following of quarry
- tagIdentifier or classifier
- roughhousingRowdy physical play
horseplay · hide-and-seek · wrestling · tickling · splashing · snowball · games · recess
romping
Playing with energetic movement
skipping · gamboling · cavorting · springing · bouncing · darting · scampering · dashing · capering · frisking
unburdened
Freed from a load
- light-heartedCheerful and carefree
- blitheCheerfully indifferent
- insouciantCarefree and unconcerned
untroubled · easygoing · spontaneous · unconstrained · liberated · unfettered · carefree · innocent · gleeful · merry
childhood
Life's earliest phase
youngsters · innocence · schoolyard · playtime · giggles · laughter · exuberance · playmates · carefree · imaginative
romp
Playful, spirited activity
roughhousing · horseplay · hide-and-seek · wrestling · tickling · splashing · snowball · games · recess · playground
meadow
Grassy field for grazing
wildflowers · stream · hillside · garden · park · beach · waves · springtime · summer · lawn
lambs
Young of sheep
calves · cubs · fawns · bunnies · otters · dolphins · squirrels · kids · colts · ponies
- good timeshaving fun, partying, celebrating, playing, laughing
- joyful movementsdancing, skipping, jumping, leaping, twirling
- lively motionsbouncing, bounding, darting, dashing, galloping
- merrimentmirth, laugh, gaiety, merriment, chuckle
- revelryrevelry, revel, festivity, festivities, celebration
- roughhousingroughhouse, roughhousing, rough play, rough and tumble, horseplay
frolickingresting
In a state of stillness
sitting · lounging · idling · stagnating · languishing
frolic, frolics, frolicsome, frolicked, frolickers, frolicker, frolicsomeness