swashbuckling

Going on bold, exciting, and exotic adventures is swashbuckling. The stories of the heroic outlaw Robin Hood involve a lot of swashbuckling.

You can use swashbuckling as a noun or an adjective, so you might dress up as the swashbuckling Inigo Montoya from the movie The Princess Bride, or try to convince your friends to watch a movie full of adventure and swashbuckling. Swashbuckler came first, a 16th-century name for a swaggering fighter. Earlier, such a character was simply called a swash, which also meant "fall of a blow."

Definitions of swashbuckling

1. noun

   flamboyantly reckless and boastful behavior
   type of:

   behavior, behaviour, conduct, demeanor, demeanour, deportment

   (behavioral attributes) the way a person behaves toward other people
2. adjective

   flamboyantly adventurous
   synonyms: swaggering

   adventuresome, adventurous

   willing to undertake or seeking out new and daring enterprises