skylarking
nounUK /ˈskʌɪlɑːkɪŋ/
Etymology From skylark + -ing.
1
Playing around; frolicking; originally, running about the rigging of a vessel for fun; horseplay.
- […] those gods and men whose titles to eminence are secure, seldom worry themselves about the seditious gossip of old apple-women, and the skylarkings of funny little boys in the street.1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or, The Ambiguities:
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