skylarking
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He chalked up the incident as “a case where the skylarking and tomfoolery in an employment context has gone awry.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2023
He told the court this was a case of "skylarking and tomfoolery" that had "gone awry".
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2023
“Showers of rice” were thrown by “the jolly young people who had been skylarking the afternoon away in the White House,” the New York Times reported.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 19, 2022
The questions are indisputably important and the lad's pluck is commendable, but the old. happy, skylarking days back at Ferndale were a lot more fun.
From Time Magazine Archive
And if, indeed, anybody from the terrace above chanced to glance down, it is likely that they supposed these two were skylarking merrymakers at some irresponsible game of catch-who-can.
From The Moonlit Way by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
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