frolicking

English

Etymology

frolic +‎ -ing.

Verb

frolicking

present participle and gerund of frolic

Noun

frolicking (countable and uncountable, plural frolickings)

The act of one who frolics.
- 1850, Herman Melville, chapter 84, in White-Jacket; or, The World in a Man-of-War, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, publishers; London: Richard Bentley, published 1855, →OCLC:
  He resolutely set his beard against their boyish frolickings, and often held forth like an oracle concerning the vanity thereof.

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