as in to hop
to play and run about happily
carefree kids laughing and frisking about in their backyard
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as in spree
a time or instance of carefree fun
fondly remembers the summer before he started college as one long frisk
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Recent Examples of frisk
Ben Brachfeld, PEOPLE, 9 Dec. 2025
Mitchell was pursued on foot by police to 63 Washington Street, where he was apprehended and frisked.
—Colleen Cronin, Boston Herald, 24 Nov. 2025
Grace Zokovitch, Boston Herald, 6 Apr. 2026
Pausing mid-frisk, Officer Jahvid Best locked eyes with the man and offered an understanding nod.
—Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Mar. 2026
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Verb
Fox frisked Mangione at the McDonald's on East Plank Road in Altoona as he was being detained for allegedly handing police a fake ID bearing the name Mark Rosario.
—Ben Brachfeld, PEOPLE, 9 Dec. 2025
Mitchell was pursued on foot by police to 63 Washington Street, where he was apprehended and frisked.
—Colleen Cronin, Boston Herald, 24 Nov. 2025
Noun
The officers conducted a pat frisk, allegedly finding a firearm from one suspect’s jacket, police said.
—Grace Zokovitch, Boston Herald, 6 Apr. 2026
Pausing mid-frisk, Officer Jahvid Best locked eyes with the man and offered an understanding nod.
—Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for frisk
Verb
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Those suborbital hops were paused in January so the company could focus on New Glenn and upcoming moonshots.—
Marcia Dunn,
Los Angeles Times,
29 May 2026
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Not well known in the investment community, Gill hopped on Reddit to pitch reasons to invest in GameStop in the subreddit WallStreetBets.—
Zev Fima,
CNBC,
29 May 2026
Noun
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Buying sprees of outlets led to owners who became highly leveraged and less able to invest in programming, which put the squeeze on suppliers such as CBS News Radio.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
22 May 2026
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Apple has been on a spree of rolling out crucial health features to more people around the world.—
Prakhar Khanna,
Forbes.com,
22 May 2026
Verb
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In an Instagram carousel shared earlier this month, Alba posted a series of photos of her and her friends enjoying time on a boat, including pictures of them lounging in their bikinis, dancing, going down the slide and jet skiing.—
Lori A Bashian,
FOXNews.com,
23 May 2026
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Colorado, with an extra man, was already a hard watch with a healthy Cale Makar dancing along the blue line.—
Sean Keeler,
Denver Post,
23 May 2026
Verb
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Do not skip the ghindara no saikyo-yaki—a fillet of black cod marinated for 72 hours and cooked in sake, and wrapped in a Japanese magnolia leaf.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
27 May 2026
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Baby Golden appeared to skip the face paint.—
Clare Fisher,
PEOPLE,
26 May 2026
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Okay, so the cow immediately finds its baby, and then there is a BABY COW gamboling in a field.—
Alice Burton,
Vulture,
23 Feb. 2026
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Know Them By Their Fruits, for example, shows people and animals gamboling among fruit trees, and The Bermuda Triangle of Nacogdoches shows planes crashing into the ocean, in front of a plat of the landlocked town.—
Benjamin Lima
Special Contributor,
Dallas Morning News,
7 Feb. 2026
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Both Donald and Si attended Syracuse University for a while but leaped impatiently into the family business well before graduation.—
David Remnick,
New Yorker,
29 May 2026
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Yet, with several new locations, including the Italian Alps in all of their winter glory, and a group of utterly talented actors whose chemistry leaps off the screen, the show remains a world very much worth checking out.—
Aramide Tinubu,
Variety,
28 May 2026
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While capering around with her boss, Matty keeps looking for a private moment alone with Olympia’s luggage.—
Noel Murray,
Vulture,
12 Dec. 2024
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Chapman persuaded Ford Motor Co. to fulfill his V-8 engine requirements and built the first of what were to become revolutionary Lotus-Fords, pencil-thin cars that looked like spiders capering through the turns.—
Mike Kupper,
Los Angeles Times,
5 June 2024
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One prompted stories of an old cowboy sitting alone on a porch, surveying a ghost town; another prompted stories about a sun rising over a meadow, where tiny creatures awakened and started to frolic.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 May 2026
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By watching every moment of his famous subjects frolicking around the studio, we’d all be deprived of the chance to cherish the best seconds of it.—
Christian Zilko,
IndieWire,
17 May 2026
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“Frisk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/frisk. Accessed 30 May. 2026.
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