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skylarkingnoun wildly playful or mischievous behaviorthe players often engaged in a bit of roughhousing and skylarking before big games buffoonery, clownery, clowning, foolery, high jinks(also hijinks), horseplay, horsing around, monkey business, monkeying, monkeyshine(s), roughhouse, roughhousing, shenanigan(s), slapstick, tomfoolery childishness, clownishness, foolishness, funning, jesting, joking, nonsense, silliness, waggeryboisterousness, rambunctiousness, rowdiness, rowdyism, rumbustiousness(chiefly British)devilry(or deviltry), impishness, knavery, mischief, mischievousness, prankishness, rascality, roguery, roguishness, trickerycavorting, frivolity, frolicking, gamboling(or gambolling), merrymaking, playfulness, revelry, roistering, romping, sporting, sportiveness skylarkingverbpresent participle of skylarkto engage in attention-getting playful or boisterous behaviorcouldn't resist the temptation to skylark as commencement ceremonies came to a close acting up, clowning (around), cutting up, fooling around, horsing around, hotdogging, monkeying (around), showboating, showing off carrying on, misbehavingroughhousingcapering, cavorting, disporting, frisking, frolicking, gamboling(or gambolling), larking, rollicking, rompingcarousing, mafficking, reveling(or revelling), roaring, wassailing to engage in activity for amusementhe spends his time joking and skylarking, but his brother is serious and industrious dallying, disporting, frolicking, playing, recreating, rollicking, sporting, toying cavorting, frisking, gamboling(or gambolling), rompingdabbling, triflingamusing, diverting, entertainingdelighting, pleasingdabbling, fiddling (around), messing around, puttering (around)bumming (around), dawdling, goldbricking, hanging, hanging about(British), idling, loafing, lounging (around or about), relaxing, resting, screwing around, slacking (off)jesting, joking, teasing drudging, laboring, plodding, plugging (away), slaving, straining, striving, struggling, sweating, toiling, working |