carousing

Definitions

Drinking alcohol and enjoying oneself with others in a noisy, lively way.

Engaging in boisterous, festive, or riotous social activity.

Examples

The group spent the entire night carousing at the local tavern, celebrating their recent victory.

After weeks of intense study, the students felt they deserved a night of carousing in the city.

Synonyms

partying reveling celebrating frolicking boozing merrymaking debauching

Antonyms

working fasting abstaining sobering studying toiling resting