gad

The humor doesn’t so much pop as gad about.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2022

Bernice King’s father gad called Vivian “the greatest preacher who ever lived,” a fierce and influential advocate for social justice.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 10, 2021

But do you remember how that face looked in 1992, when the supermodel, shown below, was in her 20s, on the gad at the Park Avenue Armory for a Versace gala, aglitter in ruby sequins?

From New York Times ● Sep. 28, 2012

Brazil forward Alexandre Pato would rather play for Milan than gad about with England's Brave John Terry at Chelsea.

From The Guardian ● May 11, 2010

"By gad, I'll have my lawyers on to her for this! I'll make her pay through the nose!"

From "The Witches" by Roald Dahl

The Americas with Simon Reeve is an amiable travelogue in which a dishy documentarian gads about the US.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 27, 2019

When the Senate is not sitting, he gads about the country publicizing golf tournaments on public links.

From Time Magazine Archive

She got disgusted and said, Ye gads, like ABC gum, already been chewed.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

We all know Vicky Van gads about a lot.

From Vicky Van by Carolyn Wells

Instead of sticking to his job, he gads about on the Prospect and plays cards.

From The Inspector-General by Thomas Seltzer

One was back in the city, on the evening of a reporter’s visit, to be followed the next day by a conference where he gadded about with John Legend.

From New York Times ● Nov. 6, 2015

So while Johann I gadded about, Johann II composed and practiced the organ in church.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mrs. Ogletree even primped her boy Georgie, whom she’d gadded up in a green velvet Little Lord Fauntleroy suit.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly

But all sorts of ugly stories were already told about her, and she gadded round the town upon very various errands.

From Norse Tales and Sketches by Alexander Lange Kielland

Its inmates had gadded about during the summer in a very reckless way; they looked more sober after the first frost—more thoughtful—more anxious about something.

From The Puddleford Papers, Or Humors of the West by H. H. Riley

Not exactly the boys of 1888, those 22 Lions pioneers who spent eight months gadding about New Zealand and Australia playing 35 games, but a fair old trip none the less.

From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2025

It has been a good twenty-five years since they would have been arrested, or shot, just for gadding about in joy on the river, as they are now.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2015

The other half of the year, when we’re not gadding about, Cosima cooks for us at her place.

From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2015

Hockney, an Englishman who loves opera and long designed opera sets, is reading more and gadding about less.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2015

“You re just the person we need, Mary Poppins. My wife’s off gadding, and I’m left to sit on the eggs. Do take a turn, there’s a good girl. I need a little rest.”

From "Mary Poppins" by P. L. Travers