gallivant

Verb

gallivant (third-person singular simple present gallivants, present participle gallivanting, simple past and past participle gallivanted)

1. (intransitive) To roam about for pleasure without any definite plan.
   • 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.1914, Eleanor H. Porter, chapter 18, in Miss Billy – Married, page 214
   • Rather than sit and gawk at my nonadoring mother and sister, I gallivanted outdoors until it was time to hit the sack.2003, Bric Blastard Had It All, page 36

   Synonyms:

   gad

2. (intransitive, obsolete) To flirt, to romance.
   • '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?'1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries