frisking

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of frisk

plural friskings

1. The act or an instance of checking someone's clothes and body for weapons or contraband.

   Synonyms: frisk, patdown

2. The action or motion of one who frisks; a gambol.

   They are no longer to be amused according to custom, as a mob with the cant of a mountebank, and the leapings, friskings, gambols, and stale jests of tumblers and clowns.

   1809, Eaton Stannard Barrett, The setting sun