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Synonyms for frolic

The synonym for frolic recorded in this bank is play, in the sense "gay or light-hearted recreational activity for diversion or amusement". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 3, Ridgeline · 1 sense · noun

The synonym for frolic

playnoun, in the sense "gay or light-hearted recreational activity for diversion or amusement"

One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day frolic is audited in a second meaning.

The sensenounTier 3, RidgelineActions

gay or light-hearted recreational activity for diversion or amusement

Their frolic in the surf threatened to become ugly.

The sentence the game shows, and the only thing that settles which meaning is meant.

The true synonym

play

Same sentence, swapped: Their play in the surf threatened to become ugly.

Close but different

The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.

athletics
nightlife
bathing

Where frolic turns up in the game

frolic is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.

Play frolic

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so frolic reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. Nothing on it is written while the page is built.

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