skylarking

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of skylark

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)Playing around; frolicking; originally, running about the rigging of a vessel for fun; horseplay.

   “[…] those gods and men whose titles to eminence are secure, seldom worry themselves about the seditious gossip of old apple-women, and the skylarkings of funny little boys in the street.”