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Romp vs Escapade - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between romp and escapade

is that romp is a period of boisterous play, a frolic while escapade is a daring or adventurous act; an undertaking which goes against convention.

As a verb romp

is to play about roughly, energetically or boisterously.

romp

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To play about roughly, energetically or boisterously.
  • * When the kids're allowed to romp in the bedroom, they break something.
  • (US) (Often used with down ) To press forcefully, to encourage vehemently, to oppress.
  • * 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 win easily.
  • * England romped to an easy win over Australia.
  • * 2014 , , " Southampton hammer eight past hapless Sunderland in barmy encounter", The Guardian , 18 October 2014:
    • Ronald Koeman collected that prize in the run-up to this game, and then watched his team romp to their biggest victory for nearly a century, inflicting a defeat that Sunderland will struggle to forget.
  • (slang) To engage in playful or boisterous sex.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A period of boisterous play, a frolic.
  • (slang) A bout of playful or boisterous sex.
  • * Sex romp at Windsor castle (headline in )
  • (archaic) A girl who indulges in boisterous play; a tomboy.

    • Derived terms

    * romper suit * romp home * rompers * rompy * romper room * romping good

    Related terms

    * rumpus

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    escapade

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A daring or adventurous act; an undertaking which goes against convention.
  • * 1724 , :
    • The Manner of living among the Portugueze here is, with the utmost Frugality and Temperance. . . . The best of them (excepting the Governor now and then) neither pay nor receive any Visits of Escapade or Recreation.
  • * 1816 , , The Antiquary - Volume II , ch. 9:
    • [Nobody] stood more confounded than Oldbuck at this sudden escapade of his nephew. "Is the devil in him," was his first exclamation, "to go to disturb the brute?"
  • * 1918 , , Piccadilly Jim , ch. 1:
    • He is always doing something to make himself notorious. There was that breach-of-promise case, and that fight at the political meeting, and his escapades at Monte Carlo.
  • * 2011 March 4, , " The Adjustment Bureau''" (film review), ''Time (retrieved 23 March 2014):
    • He seems on the verge of winning the New York Senate election when the New York Post runs a photo of David’s exposed butt in a mooning escapade from his college days.