romp

To play about roughly, energetically or boisterously.intransitive

• sport (formal)
• When the kids're allowed to romp in the bedroom, they break something.

(Often used with down) To press forcefully, to encourage vehemently, to oppress.UStransitive

• If I romp down on the gas, it'll do sixty in six seconds.
• Coach Smith had to romp on 'em to get 'em out of a losing streak.

To make progress or win easily.

• I romped through my finals.
• England romped to an easy win over Australia.

To move with little effort relatively quickly.

• We romped along with the wind astern.

To engage in playful or illicit sex.slang

• This wasn't salacious, romping 'sex', tabloid style
• Ladbrokes is offering 2-1 odds that contestants WILL romp in the ten-week show.

Someone who romps; especially, a girl or young woman who indulges in boisterous play; a tomboy.archaic

• I will venture to affirm, that a girl, whose spirits have not been damped by inactivity, or innocence tainted by false shame, will always be a romp, and the doll will never excite attention unless confinement allows her no alternative.

A period of boisterous play, a frolic; now especially, a bout of sexual activity, especially when illicit.

An enjoyable, fast-paced but essentially inconsequential film, play, or other piece of entertainment.

A decisive victory; a game, match etc. which is won easily.

A group of otters.collective

• There is a new romp of otters in Admirals Cove
• From the promontory, their gaze encompassed the entire mouth of the Boyer River. Laurence, shivering beneath her sealskin cloak, pointed out the white bellies of a romp of otters disporting themselves in the water