Main entry: rattling, alert, spanking, snappy, zippy, brisk, merry, lively
Definition: quick and energetic
Usage: a brisk walk in the park; a lively gait; a merry chase; traveling at a rattling rate; a snappy pace; a spanking breeze
Main entry: merry, festal, festive, gay
Definition: offering fun and gaiety
Usage: a festive (or festal) occasion; gay and exciting night life; a merry evening
Main entry: gay, merry, jolly, jovial, jocund, mirthful
Definition: full of or showing high-spirited merriment
Usage: when hearts were young and gay; a poet could not but be gay, in such a jocund company- Wordsworth; the jolly crowd at the reunion; jolly old Saint Nick; a jovial old gentleman; have a merry Christmas; peals of merry laughter; a mirthful laugh