Definition of "skylarking" []

• Present participle of skylark. (verb)
• Playing around; frolicking; originally, running about the rigging of a vessel for fun. (noun)

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• "Two of the men were what you call skylarking, and running one way while the child was running the other."
• "The song of the skylark sounds pooty, but "skylarking" song's better fun,"
• "Transylvania, that "skylarking" in the centre of a main-travelled road where, at the best of times, electricity literally drips off one's stanchions and screw blades, is unnecessary."