The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word FROLIC
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result FROLIC
- Left one in short dress to dance about
- Caper left one in short dress
- Have fun drawing up pencil or felt-tip circles
- Soldiers turned up in most of film escapade
- Prank captured in developed section of microfilm
- Play around for most of lap
- Following resistance, fuzz stripped of merrymaking
- Student, one wearing short dress for a prank
- Oddly ignored oldie wearing short dress in dance
- Merrymaking men recalled in film largely
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What does FROLIC mean?
FROLIC noun- Gaiety; merriment.
- A playful antic.
- A social gathering.
- To make merry; to have fun; to romp; to behave playfully and uninhibitedly.
- To cause to be merry.
- Merry, joyous, full of mirth; later especially, frolicsome, sportive, full of playful mischief.
- Free; liberal; bountiful; generous.