frolic
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It’s a rare chance for the kids in this neighbourhood to play outside together, in a space big enough to frolic and safe from traffic.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
Once completed, the $5 million acquisition will ensure the theater has a permanent home, a place where skateboarding clowns and leek-haired onions can continue to frolic and dance for decades to come.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2026
This was not the barefoot frolic I knew from picnics, not the game of lazy parabolas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025
There, the boys frolic and dream amid cinder block walls.
From New York Times ● Apr. 18, 2024
On the fourth night, guests waded through rose petals a foot deep as they crossed the deck to feast and frolic in Cleopatra’s company.
From "Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen" by Susan Blackaby
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It also includes unseen live performances and backstage frolics.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2021
When it’s not locked, her son frolics in the playground.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 28, 2020
When someone frolics at the nadir for as long as he has, there’s nowhere to go but sideways.
From New York Times ● Oct. 20, 2018
The hard black seeds that passed rapidly through the guts of those big, hairy beasts likely found good places to grow in the wakes of their canopy-opening frolics.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 14, 2018
“I don’t mean to act any more after this time. I’m getting too old for such things,” observed Meg, who was as much a child as ever about ‘dressing-up’ frolics.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
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"It's getting beyond a joke for a small country town," Peter Hainsworth, 81, told AFP as tourists frolicked on the rolling hills nearby.
From Barron's ● Apr. 30, 2026
In Chicago, people who would normally be in winter gear to fight off the city’s famously bitter winter winds instead frolicked around Lake Michigan’s shores in light jackets or even shorts and T-shirts.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 25, 2024
At the Winnick Family Children’s Zoo in Los Angeles, Maury Laham, 71, stood at the railing of the sea lion exhibit as two sleek animals frolicked in the rushing water below.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2023
These huge, nearly grown cats frolicked, racing beside our ATV as we drove the fence line and sparring on their hind legs—behavior I’d seen only in wild tigers.
From National Geographic ● Nov. 2, 2023
Little lights moving like worms frolicked before his eyes, and the breath of despair had a nasty smell.
From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison
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Some videos show puppies frolicking or close-ups of squirrels, others stream loops of squishy toys enjoyed by other animals or humans.
From BBC ● Apr. 9, 2026
When she was ruling Egypt and frolicking with Mark Antony, the Sphinx had already been buried up to its neck in sand for thousands of years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2025
Oregon officials have pushed back forcefully, flooding their own social media with images of colorful cafe tables, sun-drenched farmers markets, rose gardens in full bloom and parks bursting with children, families and frolicking dogs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2025
We can’t help but feel like we are in the influencer’s kitchen, smelling freshly baked bread and hearing the laughter of children frolicking about.
From Salon ● Sep. 22, 2025
In the cracking, frolicking flames I saw the face of Narciso.
From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya
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