frisk
verb (used without object)
to dance, leap, skip, or gambol; frolic.
are frisking
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present progressiveof frisk.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Two plainclothes policemen are frisking a white punk in the parking lot.
From Time Magazine Archive
Between stretches the flat green field of the valley, gashed with tawny streaks that are roads and dotted with soft, silvery bunches that are frisking new-born lambs.
From The Native Son by Inez Haynes Gillmore
It was in the early springtime, when lambs are frisking like rabbits upon the tender green grass, and all the land is like a tapestry of blue and white and gold and pink and green.
From In the Days of the Guild by Louise Lamprey
A large light straw hat shades the delicate oval face, and the glance of her dark eyes wanders joyously over sunlit meadows where lambs are frisking among the buttercups.
From Dorrien of Cranston by Bertram Mitford
It is warm and bright, and the birds are singing merrily, thoroughly enjoying the sunshine; the little lambs are frisking about, and running races with each other.
From Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children by W. (William) Houghton
