gallivant
verb (used without object)
to wander about, seeking pleasure or diversion; gad.
have been gallivanting
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present perfect progressiveof gallivant.present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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How I have missed you while you have been gallivanting about New York without giving the friend of your freshman days a thought.
From Grace Harlowe's Fourth Year at Overton College by Jessie Graham [pseud.] Flower
"But I shouldn't have been gallivanting, you dear old Madden," she cried, with a joyous silver laugh, that was like the ripple of a cascade under a sunny sky.
From Henry Dunbar A Novel by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
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