frisking

noun

Pronunciation: /ˈfɹɪskɪŋ/

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