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romping

romping is the present participle and gerund of romp.

Meaning of romp

Verb

romp (third-person singular simple present romps, present participle romping, simple past and past participle romped)

  1. (intransitive) To play about roughly, energetically or boisterously.
    • sport (formal)
  2. (US, transitive) (Often used with down) To press forcefully, to encourage vehemently, to oppress.
    • If I romp down on the gas, it'll do sixty in six seconds.
  3. To make progress or win easily.
    • I romped through my finals.
    Antonyms:
    squeak
  4. To move with little effort relatively quickly.
    • We romped along with the wind astern.
  5. (slang) To engage in playful or illicit sex.
    • This wasn't salacious, romping 'sex', tabloid style1997, Soundings: A Journal of Politics and Culture

See all 10 meanings of romp

Noun

romping (plural rompings)

  1. The act of one who romps.
    • I said, I was glad no mortal eyes were upon us in our merry rompings.1849, Henry Clarke Wright, Human Life, page 304

Forms of romping

pluralrompings

Phrases with romping

Questions about romping

What does romping mean?
Romping means the act of one who romps.
What is romping the present participle and gerund of?
Romping is the present participle and gerund of romp.
What part of speech is romping?
Romping is a noun.
What is the plural of romping?
The plural of romping is rompings.

Words near romping in the dictionary

  1. rompered
  2. rompering
  3. romperings
  4. rompers
  5. rompery
  6. romping
  7. romping good
  8. romping home
  9. rompingly
  10. rompings
  11. rompish

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Adapted from Wiktionary: romping (page history and authors); romp (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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