Gallivant

Quick meaning: Gallivant is a verb meaning (intransitive) To roam about for pleasure without any definite plan.

Meaning

(intransitive) To roam about for pleasure without any definite plan.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To flirt, to romance.

Example Sentences

Rather than sit and gawk at my nonadoring mother and sister, I gallivanted outdoors until it was time to hit the sack.

Bertram, it is true, when he heard of the plan, rebelled, and asserted that what Billy needed was a rest, an entire rest from care and labor. In fact, what he wanted her to do, he said, was to gallivant – to gallivant all day long.

'That you never go gallivanting with Chloe again. You both "don't mean anything", but suppose you did happen to get the girl discharged with a very dubious character? Should you see any alternative to behaving either as a fool or a knave to put it right?'

When she wasn't gallivanting about the globe, gathering interesting tidbits for her travel blog, she adored holing up for days at a time with a few pints of Häagen-Dazs, leaving only to go for a dip in the rooftop pool or for a workout in the building's fitness club.

Word Forms

• gallivants
• gallivanting
• gallivanted
• galavant
• gallavant

Synonyms for gallivant

Depending on context, synonyms include gad.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include gad, rove, gallavant, galivant, galavant, roam.

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