Other forms: frolics
To frolic is to play and jump about happily. Lambs frolicking, frolic in the water, a frolic in the snow.
It is used of lambs, puppies and children, and of adults only when the writer wants to sound arch. As a noun it means a bout of playful fun. In law, a frolic of his own is a real term for an employee doing something outside their job, which decides whether the employer is liable — a phrase that has always amused lawyers.
1verbfrolicTo play and jump about happily.
“Lambs frolicked in the spring sunshine, jumping over each other.”
2nounboutA bout of playful fun.
“The puppies' frolic on the lawn made everyone laugh.”
frolic is a playful romp.
FROLic → running FREELY
The children run freely about the field, jumping for nothing but fun.
hooks ontofreely
Dutch vrolijk means cheerful, from a Germanic root about joy. German fröhlich is the same word, and English borrowed the adjective and made a verb from it.
Proto-Indo-European
*prew-
Proto-Germanic
*frawalīkaz
Old Dutch
frōlīk
Middle Dutch
vrolijc
Dutch
vrolijk — cheerful
English, today
frolic
From Dutch vrolijk (“cheerful”), from Middle Dutch vrolijc, from Old Dutch frōlīk, from Proto-Germanic frawalīkaz. Compare German fröhlich (“blitheful, gaily, happy, merry”). The first element, ultimately from Proto-Germanic frawaz, is cognate with Middle English frow (“hasty”); the latter element, ultimately from -līkaz, is cognate with -ly, -like.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in A Song of Ice and Fire