frisking

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of frisk

noun

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