lark about
lark around

At one level, it was just us kids larking about.

So you can play Ultimate competitively or just have a lark about.

That he was high as a kite on Ecstasy and had thought they were larking about!

"Larking about and they don't remember a thing I've told them.

"The students have been larking about in the quad for days.

He had thought at first that it was one of the cleaners laughing or larking about.

She was babbling some- thing to Lark about the miscarriages.

"It is foolish for you to be larking about on deck in this weather."

Unlike the dolphins, no transcendent had ever asked Lark about his wishes.

Larking about in the street reflected the relative freedom that a world without walls gave the children of the city's urban poor.

They all go bicycling together and run across bridges and lark about, yes?

"You'll upset his stomach with all that larking about," Elizabeth cautioned.

The kids are larking about in the steam-filled room, and the girl seems grateful for adult conversation.

The rest, of him, running, baking scones, larking about, she insists on keeping private.

There he is, larking about on the ice and sniffing the air, less than 50 yards from where the ship has parked.

There is larking about, yes, and moving in an organised fashion, but none of that base physical stuff.

Only a couple of kids larking about.

A recent oral history of schoolchildren shows how close an eye the police kept on 'larking about'.

The men continue to do their best to entertain Masao by larking about for a few more days.

I spent a lot of my childhood in Lincolnshire larking about in, around and under trees.

It was a massive adventure; all us eight boys larking about all over the globe.

"While you've been larking about in Aydindril, we've had real trouble."

This year, the dress show was a serious affair and larking about was strictly discouraged.

I must tell Lark about this, someday.

Several small boys were larking about and being chased off by a Securicor guard.

Look, if you ask me, at worst it could have been a bit of stoned and drunken larking around that went wrong.

"It takes a special tool and I was afraid to lark around with it.

It was just some young fools larking around."

Well after all this larking around i am finally back to Bondgirl!

A berobed figure with a blue face and an enormous baton was larking around the lawn.

I dare say those two small kids had a great time larking around with mummy and 'uncle' Johnny.

We found the otters - well, three of them - huge, sleek creatures they were, larking around and eating piranha.

They're probably just larking around.

For your larking around.

As a free agent, if she wants to lark around topless and snog in the sun with Bryan, what's it got to do with anyone else?

Also, I have a phobia of videos featuring 'the guys' larking around backstage, pulling faces at the camera etc.

But otters also give the impression of being naturally playful, as they lark around, getting their fur muddy, on the sticky parts of the riverbank.

Larking around: Gillian Anderson and Oscar Kennedy in Great Expectations.

Pancho's piloting skills were rusty, she knew, but inwardly she longed for a chance to fly this bucket, just for a little larking around.

Alex thought of Brookland and a big part of him yearned to be with his friends, larking around and getting into trouble - back in the real world.

There's so much disturbance, Fabian's making this disturbance; it's a game, he's larking around, that's the trouble, it's too soon, he's too frisky, it's all a game at the moment.

And I love Julie Walters's story about how she and her new best friend, one Victoria Wood, would spend their lunchtimes between rehearsals (this was 1978) hanging out of the window and larking around.

The close derivation Sundae Club came a week or two later when it became apparent that Mondays were actually more convenient than Sundays for us to get together and lark around with synthesizers and old tat.

I'm fairly certain that my appearance will in no way provoke the same spine-tingling reaction but after a year away from the stand-up stage, I'm looking forward to larking around with Abi in front of an audience.

"One has to do a bit of larking around or go crazy," declares the kleptomaniacal Lady Cray, one not-so-dotty resident of the local sanitarium where Adam Holdsworth, the crusty family patriarch, lives and lords it over his more feeble relatives.

What's more, with the River Cloud putting into port in France or Germany every day and docking each night, I could ward off claustrophobia by wandering ashore, larking around in picture-postcard perfect towns, fortifying my mood with local wines and seeking moral uplift in Gothic cathedrals.

For all our little hiccups, Ruth and I had kept up our habit of rounding off the day in my room, talking over our hot drinks, and it was during one of those sessions, when we were larking around about something, that she suddenly said: "I suppose you've heard what Chrissie and Rodney have been saying."