Larks are passerine birds of the family Alaudidae. Larks have a Cosmopolitan distribution with the largest number of species occurring in Africa. Only a single species, the horned lark, occurs in North America, and only Horsfield's bush lark occurs in Australia.

What does it mean to be called a lark?

A lighthearted, fun episode is a lark. ... A lark is also a kind of songbird. Using lark to describe carefree fun might come from 1800s sailors' slang, skylark, to describe playing in the rigging of the ship, up high like a lark.

How do you use lark in a sentence?

(1) Give a lark to catch a kite. (2) I only went along for a lark. (3) The kids hid their teacher's bike for a lark. (4) What a merry lark.