frolicking
noun, verb
frolicking is a noun meaning “The act of one who frolics” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-R-O-L-I-C-K-I-N-G and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 3 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of frolicking is frolickings.
What does frolicking mean?
noun
- 1
The act of one who frolics.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of frolic
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce frolicking?
Frolicking has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of frolicking
- frolickings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is frolicking?
Frolicking appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 53,573rd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does frolicking come from?
From frolic + -ing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).