colloq. [f. LARK v.2 + -ING1.] The action of LARK v.2; fun, frolic.
1813. Col. Hawker, Diary (1893), I. 68. Much as larking was in force, there had been no spree to top this.
1825. Beddoes, Lett., 19 July, in Poems, p. xlvii. Two Oxford men, professors of genteel larking.
1838. Lady Granville, Lett., 14 July. He … like me, shuns actual practical larking.
