Synonyms for frisk
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1. frisk

   Synonyms:
   sport, leap, jump, play, dance, wanton

   Antonyms:
   lie, ruminate, rest, repose, roost, mope, sulk

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1. frisk, friskingverb

   the act of searching someone for concealed weapons or illegal drugs

   "he gave the suspect a quick frisk"

   Synonyms:
   frisking

2. frolic, lark, rollick, skylark, disport, sport, cavort, gambol, frisk, romp, run around, lark aboutverb

   play boisterously

   "The children frolicked in the garden"; "the gamboling lambs in the meadows"; "The toddlers romped in the playroom"

   Synonyms:
   boast, sport, lark, frolic, romp, run around, amuse, lark about, divert, rollick, disport, cavort, gambol, feature, skylark

3. friskverb

   search as for concealed weapons by running the hands rapidly over the clothing and through the pockets

   "The police frisked everyone at the airport"

   Synonyms:
   sport, frolic, romp, run around, lark about, lark, rollick, disport, cavort, gambol, skylark

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1. friskverb

   Synonyms:
   leap, skip, hop, frolic, romp, gambol, dance

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1. frisknoun

   Synonyms:
   frolic, gambol

2. friskverb

   Synonyms:
   leap, skip, gambol, frolic, play

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1. Keechant Sewell:

   We've learned that stop and frisk is not the answer, that violence reduction can happen independent of that, and we saw that in New York over many years, so as far as... data providing credence that we should have more of those policies, I don't think there's any evidence of that.

2. Elizabeth Warren:

   When Mayor Buttigieg says that Mayor Buttigieg apologized, listen very closely to the apology, the language Mayor Buttigieg used is about stop and frisk. It's about how it turned out. No, this isn't about how it turned out. This is about what it was designed to do to begin with.

3. American Civil Liberties Union:

   Stop and frisk is disproportionately concentrated in the black community.

4. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders:

   We will not create the energy and excitement we need to defeat Donald Trump if that candidate pursued, advocated for and enacted racist policies like stop and frisk which caused communities of color in his city to live in fear, the simple truth is that Mayor Bloomberg with all Donald Trump money will not create the kind of excitement and energy we need to have the voter turnout we must have to defeat Donald Trump.

5. Democratic Senate:

   There is a real opportunity to build a statewide platform that elevates and exposes the damage created by the school-to-prison pipeline, the prison industrial complex, and ‘tough on crime’ policies like ‘Stop and Frisk’ and cash bail,' restorative justice to me is just common sense.