rollicking

[US]/ˈrɒlɪkɪŋ/
[UK]/ˈrɑːlɪkɪŋ/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. exuberant, lively, full of high spirits, boisterous
Word Forms
Present Participlerollicking

Phrases & Collocations

rollicking music

Example Sentences

this is all good rollicking fun.

I've had a bit of a rollicking for not riding with more restraint.

Jerry Lewis made his acclaimed directorial debut in this rollicking comedy hit.

A rollicking, happy, fun, Broadway musical for the whole family.The Guys and Dolls of New York sing, dance, and gamble their way to love and redemption.

a rollicking good time

a rollicking music festival

a rollicking pub crawl

a rollicking family gathering

a rollicking road trip

Real-world Examples

After dark, the town erupts into a rollicking party scene.

Source: Uncle Rich takes you on a trip to Europe.

This is a tragic tale but also a rollicking read.

Source: The Economist Culture

I wonder what rollicking adventures I'll stumble into.

Source: Gravity Falls Season 1

Those wanting a rollicking—albeit jaundiced—examination of crypto's underbelly should read Mr Faux's book.

Source: The Economist Culture

None so merry or full-crawed as he with his whimsical eye and rollicking step.

Source: Selected Works of O. Henry

The Douglas squirrel is the only living creature that I can compare him with in exuberant, rollicking, irrepressible jollity.

Source: Summer walks through the mountains.

Morning came, eventually, and by ten or eleven o'clock a giddy and rollicking company were gathered at Judge Thatcher's, and everything was ready for a start.

Source: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

But as Geoff White, a bbc journalist, explains in his rollicking new book, that backwardness has helped make a handful of North Koreans very technologically savvy indeed.

Source: The Economist Culture

Together they stood, side by side, and looked down at the depths before them, watching in silence the little torrent rollicking and roystering over its boulders and crags.

Source: Vancouver Legend

In the first few pages, she moves from a snail escaping a pot of escargots to a multi-century history of Soho before settling down to tell a rollicking tale of pimps and prostitutes, property and posterity.

Source: Selected English short passages

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