Usually means: Travel around for pleasure aimlessly.
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  1. gallivant: Merriam-Webster
  2. gallivant: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gallivant: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gallivant: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gallivant: Vocabulary.com
  6. Gallivant, gallivant: Wordnik
  7. gallivant: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. gallivant: Wiktionary
  9. gallivant: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. gallivant (galavant): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. gallivant: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Gallivant, gallivant: Dictionary.com
  13. gallivant: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. gallivant: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Gallivant: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Gallivant: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. gallivant: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. gallivant: Rhymezone
  19. Gallivant: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. gallivant: FreeDictionary.org
  21. gallivant: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. gallivant: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. gallivant: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. gallivant: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. gallivant: A Word A Day
  2. gallivant: Idioms

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▸ verb:  (intransitive) To roam about for pleasure without any definite plan.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To flirt, to romance.

Similar:
gad, jazz around, gallavant, galivant, galavant, roam, ramble, wander, vagrate, explore, more...

Opposite:
stay, remain, settle, stay put

Types:
carouse, frolic, gamble, party, play, revel, roister, romp, more...
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Similar:
gad, jazz around, gallavant, galivant, galavant, roam, ramble, wander, vagrate, explore, more...

Opposite:
stay, remain, settle, stay put

Types:
carouse, frolic, gamble, party, play, revel, roister, romp, more...



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