skylarking Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb play boisterously
    disport; rollick; cavort; romp; run around; skylark; sport; frisk; lark; lark about; frolic; gambol.
    • The children frolicked in the garden
    • the gamboling lambs in the meadows
    • The toddlers romped in the playroom

WordNet


Sky"lark"ing noun
Definitions
  1. The act of running about the rigging of a vessel in sport; hence, frolicking; scuffing; sporting; carousing. Colloq.

Webster 1913