truants
Hooky-playing students
Truants are students who skip school without permission.
The word can also describe anyone who shirks duty or responsibility: The teacher asked where the truants had gone.
As an adjective, truant describes the act of skipping: truant behavior, truant students.
To play truant is to be absent without authorization.
Unauthorized school absence
- skippingRhythmic hopping locomotion
- AWOLAbsent without permission
- absenceState of not being
- nonattendanceFailure to appear
unexcused · bunking · skiving · ditching · cutting · no-show · malingering · unauthorized
Young person or animal
- courtTrial venue or sports surface
- probationSupervised trial period
- misconductImproper professional behavior
- curfew violationBeing out past mandated time
vandalism · petty crime · shoplifting · lawbreaking · disobedience · offense · gangs · trespassing
People aged thirteen to nineteen
- studentsThose receiving instruction
- schoolchildrenYoung students in education
- minorsThose below legal age
- juvenilesUnderage individuals
adolescents · highschoolers · classmates · peer pressure · underage · pupils · schoolboys · schoolgirls
Open resistance to authority
- nonconformistRejects prevailing social standards
- disobedienceRefusal to follow orders
- resistanceCapacity to withstand force
- protestPublic expression of disapproval
subversive · renegade · iconoclast · rule-breaking · authority · antiestablishment · dissident · troublemaker
hooky
Unauthorized school absence
nonattendance · unexcused · bunking · skiving · ditching · cutting · no-show · malingering · unauthorized · absentee
juvenile
Young person or animal
- courtTrial venue or sports surface
- probationSupervised trial period
- misconductImproper professional behavior
curfew violation · vandalism · petty crime · shoplifting · lawbreaking · disobedience · offense · gangs · trespassing · vagrancy
teenagers
People aged thirteen to nineteen
- studentsThose receiving instruction
- schoolchildrenYoung students in education
- minorsThose below legal age
juveniles · adolescents · highschoolers · classmates · peer pressure · underage · pupils · schoolboys · schoolgirls · homework
defiance
Open resistance to authority
- nonconformistRejects prevailing social standards
- disobedienceRefusal to follow orders
- resistanceCapacity to withstand force
protest · subversive · renegade · iconoclast · rule-breaking · authority · antiestablishment · dissident · troublemaker · unruly
- playing truant
- play truantSkip school unauthorized
- truant officerEnforces compulsory school attendance
- truancy officerEnforces compulsory school attendance
- truancy lawsStatutes mandating school presence